Sentences with phrase «liberal social policy»

McKinney's brand of fiscal conservatism and liberal social policy would make him an appealing candidate in November, the Senate minority leader is struggling against front - runner Foley in their party contest.

There is, many would now admit, merit in the conservative criticism of liberal social policy.

New Year's Day signaled the start of a 2014 re-election campaign for Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a downstate Democrat eager to announce shiny new investments in Upstate New York, where conservative voters have soured on his liberal social policies.

In his first term Cuomo used his State of the State Addresses to build what observers call his version of «a new Democrat,» or his version of being (Bill) Clintonian - rolling out fairly moderate - to - conservative fiscal proposals, including some that targeted Western and Upstate New York for growth, and liberal social policies like marriage equality and gun control.

He was elected in 2010 as a «new Democrat» who married centrist economic policies — a cap on property tax increases, business tax cuts, a reduction in pension benefits for new public employees — with liberal social policies like strict gun control and support for same - sex marriage.

For years, the Republican «Long Island Nine» in the State Senate stayed out of the way when Cuomo looked to pass liberal social policies like gay marriage and gun control, and supported his fiscally conservative agenda on taxes, education, public sector unions and regulation.

Take liberal social policies, the original bike culture, and cities and towns crisscrossed with canals, and you've got the solo traveler's Disneyland known as the Netherlands.

Not exact matches

The Liberals can argue that beyond the social good provided by its spending initiatives, some of its policies do carry an economic benefit.

The recent federal election featured something of a debate on fiscal policy, with the Liberals promising to run modest deficits for three years in order to stimulate a sagging economy and finance needed long - term investments in infrastructure and social programs.

If those guys are largely right about the incentive factors that would then come into play (and especially if Americans were moderating their economic libertarianism with devotion to family, virtue, community, and God, as your work would urge them to), then by no means would that cause the social welfare policy disaster most liberals assume it would.

In other contexts, such as that of social action, we may want liberals to be more assertive about convictions that divide them from others; to be willing, for example, to call a social policy unchristian that they think is unchristian.

However, the Thai government has hardly implemented any social policy towards rural and hilltribe people for equitable distribution of the wealth accumulated by its quite liberal economic development policy.

Trump's coalition contains social conservatives despite his socially liberal policies.

Niebuhr said that the relevant norm for political decisions and social policy is not love, as the liberals had claimed, but justice.

This paper presents an approach to social and legal policy that would combine many concerns of both liberals and conservatives, that would work patiently toward long - range goals, that would embrace a dialogical notion of the common good, and that would seek to promote the general welfare by attending to the conditions under which individuals, families, and communities prosper.

A more likely source is the decline of the black family (approximately three - fifths of current black births are illegitimate) and the effect that liberal economic and social policies have had on encouraging dysfunctional social behavior and in undermining those forces within the city such as religion that have attempted to hold back the new urban barbarism.

In light of that conviction, conservatives and liberals could repossess the love that makes possible justice, social policies and practices in which just means and ends cohere.

But it lacks the courage of its own secular liberal convictions and so does not pursue a strong political policy of social and moral reform.

To start with, one must wonder why these two issues» both of which ought to place politically liberal evangelicals in significant conflict with the Democratic party's social platform» are presented as «controversial» matters about which faithful Christians may disagree, while issues like foreign policy, environmentalism, and economics are presented as simple matters of justice.

Campaigning with conservative and national liberal positions on domestic, social and family policy, they have fared better in regional elections.

Colm: I fear you are allowing your (and my) disagreements with the classical liberal / libertarian right on social and economic policy to get in the way of the possibility of useful discussion of civil liberties issues.

The Social Liberal Forum contributes to the discourse on public policy within the Liberal Democrats and in the public realm through events, blog posts and opinion articles, engagement with the media and political leaders and through publications.

The proposal here is not the policy of the Social Liberal Forum.

-LSB-...] we face, and the inadequate policy response to date, prompted the Social Liberal Forum to publish Plan C — social liberal approaches to a fair, sustainable ecSocial Liberal Forum to publish Plan C — social liberal approaches to a fair, sustainable eLiberal Forum to publish Plan C — social liberal approaches to a fair, sustainable ecsocial liberal approaches to a fair, sustainable eliberal approaches to a fair, sustainable economy.

Perhaps the Social Liberal Forum should see this as an opportunity to defeat the leadership and ensure we have Social Liberal Policies in the run up to the next general election.

Like all Liberal Democrats, the Social Liberal Forum is very proud of our party's uniquely democratic approach to policy making and as we enter the run up to the 2014 and 2015 elections, we look forward to further statements from our ministers in government that set out clear ideological differences between us and the Tory Party.

If activists persist in supporting policies on the basis that they are infused with social liberal values and principles, rather than their popularity with the swing voter in the centre ground, then that is oh so endearingly and impractically childlike.

This pamphlet draws together social liberal thinking from past and present, advocating policies that would lead to sustainable prosperity and good jobs for all.

We made a successful attempt to get social liberals elected to the party's Federal Policy Committee (FPC), where we were able to defeat an attempt by the leadership to drop the policy of scrapping university tuitionPolicy Committee (FPC), where we were able to defeat an attempt by the leadership to drop the policy of scrapping university tuitionpolicy of scrapping university tuition fees.

-LSB-...] at Lib Dem Conference September 2012Associated FringesInaugural Annual Conference DinnerSLF FringesSLF PublicationsEconomic Plan CLiberal Democrat party policy - making in coalition — a Social Liberal Forum -LSB-...]

The Social Liberal Forum say «It is heartening to see policies that we as Liberal Democrats have long campaigned for being delivered: the Pupil Premium, the universality of most welfare payments, the creation of a Green Investment Bank, Regional Growth Funds and the protection of spending for schools, the NHS, international development and science.

We (I was the Liberal Democrats» director of policy between 1999 and 2004) developed a modern restatement of the social liberalism, called «New Liberalism» in its day, espoused by Hobhouse: social liberalism, greened and decentralised to meet the challenges of the 21st century.

It is self evident to those of us on the social liberal wing of the Party that the policies of this Coalition are both unsound on economic and social grounds.

Disclaimer: Membership of the Council does not imply agreement with any or all policy statements made by Social Liberal Forum.

(CNN)- Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley championed a series of progressive causes during a policy speech in Washington Thursday, touting his state's economic record as evidence that encouraging liberal social issues can lead to prosperity.

The Social Liberal Forum has recently undertaken an exercise to begin to develop policy in key areas in an attempt to express progress in Lib Dem thinking.

Liberal immigration policies are a way to redress this problem and comprise a key plank of the Scottish National party's social and economic plan for an independent Scotland.

In 2004 members of the classical and economic liberal strand contributed to The Orange Book, which contained free - market economic and social policies and was seen as an attempt to move the party towards the centre - ground.

-LSB-...] finally, a cautious welcome from the Social Liberal Forum: Social liberals should apply same test to this budget as to all government economic policy ---LSB-...]

At the launch of the Social Liberal Forum in Harrogate, there was considerable enthusiasm among those attending for talking to people outside the Liberal Democrats where there is scope for developing policy ideas together.

The Social Liberal Forum believes Nick Clegg's newly promulgated policy to rely on spending cuts raises serious questions.

It sets out the Social Liberal Forum's proposals for the economy, which we hope to see adopted by the Liberal Democrats as a distinct policy from both...

Blair and Mandelson know that their political project — to eliminate trade union and rank and file influence from the Labour Party and move it towards coalition with the Liberals — and the government's economic policies, notably the goal of cutting social spending, will collide with successive layers of the labour movement.

To help with the ambition of the Social Liberal Forum to develop radical, distinctive and progressive policies and manifesto for the next election,...

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As a member of the Social Liberal Forum Council and Executive, he published the SLF's acclaimed economic platform, Plan C, and has argued for social liberal approaches to a sustainable economy by serving on two Liberal Democrat policy working groups (Inequality, and Sources of Sustainable Jobs and ProspeSocial Liberal Forum Council and Executive, he published the SLF's acclaimed economic platform, Plan C, and has argued for social liberal approaches to a sustainable economy by serving on two Liberal Democrat policy working groups (Inequality, and Sources of Sustainable Jobs and ProspLiberal Forum Council and Executive, he published the SLF's acclaimed economic platform, Plan C, and has argued for social liberal approaches to a sustainable economy by serving on two Liberal Democrat policy working groups (Inequality, and Sources of Sustainable Jobs and Prospesocial liberal approaches to a sustainable economy by serving on two Liberal Democrat policy working groups (Inequality, and Sources of Sustainable Jobs and Prospliberal approaches to a sustainable economy by serving on two Liberal Democrat policy working groups (Inequality, and Sources of Sustainable Jobs and ProspLiberal Democrat policy working groups (Inequality, and Sources of Sustainable Jobs and Prosperity).

«The Welsh Liberal Democrat policy sets out a new liberal vision for higher education that builds on the core principles that access to higher education should be determined by academic ability and not social backLiberal Democrat policy sets out a new liberal vision for higher education that builds on the core principles that access to higher education should be determined by academic ability and not social backliberal vision for higher education that builds on the core principles that access to higher education should be determined by academic ability and not social background.

Mr Blair has taken the unusual step of briefing newspapers over his concern that the Liberal Democrats will get nowhere if they move to the left of Labour, adopt a policy of demanding higher taxes and become more critical of his party's efforts to tackle measures such as social exclusion.

Progressive policies were liberal when they were first proposed, but now that they've been established for almost a century they've become a part of the American tradition and so many conservatives will seek to conserve something like Social Security.

-LSB-...] Social Liberal Forum say «It is heartening to see policies that we as Liberal Democrats have long campaigned for -LSB-...]