Sentences with phrase «influence political debate»

They manifestly haven't produced an objective study, and are evidently driven by a desire to influence the political debate, whether or not they are aware of it.

Back in 2007, when the Labour Government was preparing what became the Climate Change Act, far from being neutral, the Met Office made a blatant attempt to influence political debate.

I would think, however, that he is missing an important point: if they can not be divorced, so justifying scientists attempting to influence the political debate, then there would be no reason for the politicians to not influence the science, most likely through funding.

With its challenge to conventional environmentalist, conservative, and progressive thought, and its proposal for a politics of possibility, Break Through will influence the political debate for years to come.

The negative income tax experiments were designed to influence political debate on income support policy in at least two ways.

In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries sending communications to influential men was, for many early female voters, the most effective way of influencing political debate in a period where public speaking was frowned upon.

Not exact matches

He said CNN has «unparalleled» resources for reporting, and that this would give the K - File team an opportunity to influence the current U.S. political debate in a powerful way.

The party's influence on the political debate will probably encourage establishment parties to court NF voters by adopting some of its proposals, including on immigration — for the center - right — and opposition to fiscal rigor — for the Socialists.

When George W. Bush was asked which political philosopher had most influenced him in a debate before the 2000 Iowa caucus, he responded «Jesus.»

In general terms he wants to influence the political balance of debate, but more specifically with this move he has got his hands on the data bank and resource the PHI survey represents.

The Group continued into the 1960s and although it was never formally wound up it became increasingly a debating society as the mainstream of the party endorsed Grimond's political strategy and the economic liberals gradually lost influence or left the party.

Scotland has to be ignored here as the political debate is influenced by the Unionist / Natioanlist divide in addition to Brexit.

Leaving aside the debate about just how much influence Britain has within the EU anyway, would a Brexit really result in a diminution of power greater than the end of empire, or that which states like Greece gave up when they joined the Euro, or when Poland chose paralysis as its political system in the eighteenth century, leading to it disappearing from the map altogether for well over a century?

The Labour Party in opposition needs to present itself as an alternative government, but just as importantly the role of the main opposition party in a parliamentary democracy is to seek to influence the decisions of government, and shape the political debate.

But now, at the point in the political cycle where they have most leeway, the reluctance to debate and resolve differences limits their influence within the Coalition.

«Given that billions of dollars are being disbursed,» says Dennis Van Roekel, president of the National Education Association, the country's largest teachers union, «it is reasonable that people are starting to raise concerns about how this flow of money is shaping our political debate about education reform and to ask if a handful of individuals are having undue influence in one of our nation's most important institutions.»

We acknowledge that in Chile, like in the United States, the debate over what counts as data, how data is interpreted, and the measures that are used to indicate educational achievement and improvement is ongoing and often influenced by broader political and economic ideologies and goals.

He has been at the forefront of experimentation and political debate within the visual arts — performance artist, painter, writer, Professor at the Slade School of Art — with an enduring influence on many of the present generation of younger British artists.

* The role of the US in global efforts to address pollutants that are broadly dispersed across national borders, such as greenhouse gasses, persistent organic pollutants, ozone, etc...; * How they view a president's ability to influence national science policy in a way that will persist beyond their term (s), as would be necessary for example to address global climate change or enhancement of science education nationwide; * Their perspective on the relative roles that scientific knowledge, ethics, economics, and faith should play in resolving debates over embryonic stem cell research, evolution education, human population growth, etc... * What specific steps they would take to prevent the introduction of political or economic bias in the dissemination and use of scientific knowledge; * (and many more...)

> One side stands to lose a massive amount of influence in the public debate, whereas the other side is potentially ascendant (to the extend that this issue continues to have political saliency).

One side stands to lose a massive amount of influence in the public debate, whereas the other side is potentially ascendant (to the extent that this issue continues to have political saliency).

The matter came up during the Feb. 4 Democratic debate in New Hampshire when Sanders talked about the way money and influence are leveraged to sway political positions.

Now let's re-visit Judith's narrative of; «Makes me wonder how $ 1M / yr, whatever its source, can have much influence on an international political debate?»

Makes me wonder how $ 1M / yr, whatever its source, can have much influence on an international political debate?

But how he chooses to differentiate what he wants to respond to is different than saying that there is a vast asymmetry in the influence of tribalism or political orientation in the climate debate writ large, or in the sausage making of related policies.

I see your position but it's carried too far if we pretend the consensus, of which you are member, doesn't have a political leaning and that it doesn't influence the posture of the debate.

Peddlers of this myth push the assumption that climate science can not take place independently of the influence of policy debates, accusing the climate science community and institutions like the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change of having a political agenda, conspiring to fabricate data, and hyping up the science for personal gain.

The data and conclusions in the K15 paper qualify as ISI, because the implications of the conclusions have the potential to influence public policy concerning the politically charged climate change policy debates among various political factions.

This was seen by many as the most controversial aspect of Heartland's attempt to «influence» the debate on climate change, because it is one thing to confuse political leaders (they almost seem to enjoy it), but quite another to spread misinformation to students.

«we find a reluctance to examine the degree to which counter-balancing political orientation might influence alternative views in the climate debate.»

However, what they confirm — whatever the rights and wrongs of such leaks — is that the public has been deprived of a debate, and scientific researchers have incautiously allowed themselves to become advocates, and to make political moves to influence the public debate — or to preclude it altogether.

Here we have the empirical proof that the positivist should welcome: institutional science is evidentially more easily influenced by politics than are an array of independent researchers, whether or not they are scientifically trained, because they are free to speak out of turn without fear; institutional science can not check itself for political prejudice and deviation from scientific consensus; climate sceptics can and do successfully challenge institutional science; the problems of the climate debate are problems caused absolutely and entirely by the excesses of institutional science and its proximity to political agendas.

While the Transition Movement has, so far, been careful to avoid party politics, it seems obvious that as a community - lead response to coming challenges, it has little choice but to engage in political debate as its influence grows.

These trends were reflected in and influenced by lively debates within the field and critiques from various sources, including feminism and post-modernism, that reflected in part the cultural and political tenor of the times, and which foreshadowed the emergence (in the 1980s and 1990s) of the various «post-systems» constructivist and social constructionist approaches.