Sentences with phrase «informed political debate»

Strong protections for the right to protest are essential to meaningful and informed political debate and discussion.

Before tucking into some turkey and informed political debate with your relatives, millions of travelers like you will face the joys of modern commercial air travel.

A rather wooly - headed theory about how science should be used to inform political debate was rapidly bent into a hammer for «skeptics» to pummel any scientist they didn't like.

Not exact matches

The raging public debate, largely ill - informed, is not premised on what is in Ghana's national interest, but what will give the largest boost to the political fortunes of the NDC & NPP in the run up to November's Presidential and Parliamentary elections.

This blog series aims to inform public and policy debate on the role of public assets in our political economy.

While the independence debate informs almost every aspect of Scottish political elections, there is a special dimension to this in the Labour party.

The core functions, defined as executive accountability, legislative scrutiny, and informed debate, and the changing political complexion and personnel of the House are considered in the following chapters.

Our divisive political system seems fated to make decisions about genomic editing of human embryos mainly amidst conflict, with experts dueling in the public media rather than through a thoughtful and well - informed debate conducted in a credible framework.

Establishing curiosity, respect and even ground rules around the hot political topics of the day will allow your students more creativity, as well as allowing them to profoundly explore and understand that they are a part of history and that their dialogue, advocacy and compassion informs national debate.

In placing a spotlight on the outcomes of our study, it contributes to the political debates on immigration and better informs federal and state policies as well as school and community practices.

Research findings, anecdotes, and test scores can inform the debate about whether a particular school reform has worked or not worked, or whether it is a «good» approach or a «bad» one, but the decision to continue or abandon that approach will always be political in nature.

My brother, a political scientist, informs me of a debate in his field: Many political scientists insist that «policy follows culture,» meaning people establish laws and social arrangements based on their cultural values.

Jordan's emphasis on the intersection of art and politics in the twentieth century informs much of her academic research, and she is currently working on a book that places the aesthetic and political conflicts of Picabia's era in dialogue with more contemporary political debates.

«This is not a technical book on climate change, as others have said, however if you want your opinion on the AGW debate to be an informed one or are interested in the political forces even now shaping the future global climate, this is essential reading.»

This is to say that the «consensus» has political, rather than practical utility: it is more useful to the task of mobilising towards «action on climate change» than it is informing the debate about what kind of problem climate change is, and what the options for dealing with it are.

Drawing on this perspective, while employing both economic theory and market history, we hope to better inform the energy debate in a civil but forceful manner, without recourse to political partisanship or ideological cant.

The previous post here made the point that the IPCC serves much less to inform debate than as a vehicle for any number of political ambitions or prejudices, few of which can be justified on the basis of the IPCC's reports — assessments of what «science says».

They deserve and increasingly demand healthy and respectful political dialogue, and well - informed, well - debated public policies.

It therefore seems problematic to me when such lively, well - informed and yet largely unresolved debates among a substantial cohort of the world's climate change researchers gets reduced to six key messages, messages that on the one hand carry the aura of urgency, precision and scientific authority — «there is no excuse for inaction» — and yet at the same time remain so imprecise as to resolve nothing in political terms.

If live accounts of trials are wellsprings for an informed citizenry, the online public debate that encircles these virtual watering holes may subsequently enrich «both the substantive positions of participants and also their political selves as citizens.»

-LSB-...] that we could ask politicians questions and have at least some informed debate about this issue (Getting A2J Onto the Political Agenda in the Federal Election)... but oh -LSB-...]

[56]... No reasonably informed Canadian would conclude that Mr. Layton was defamed by being called Taliban Jack, understanding that this was simply a catchy label attached to him by conservatives to showcase what they consider the weakness of the liberal argument in this political debate.

The authors share insight on their multidisciplinary research covering areas of social policy, economics, poverty, gender studies, nutrition, agriculture, labour, migration, and conflict with the objective of fostering informed debate on social, political and economic issues and policies.

Croakey provides an informed voice to the health, equity and environmental debates, and is helping mobilise the necessary political and popular support for a radical break from the complacent and compartmentalized attitude that still dominates much of the political agenda.