Sentences with phrase «n't influence public policy»

This (unfortunately for me) allows people to display and practice their faith in public, but it shouldn't influence public policy or laws.

Not exact matches

Charity doesn't work well, is an ineffective distribution of resources, and is an insulting Band - Aid on the problems that the churches have in fact created and perpetuated by their influence on public policy.

«In the United States, evangelicals feels like they're losing influence because the elite culture isn't sympathetic or sees them as intolerant - which I don't think it is the case, but it's how they're perceived,» said Cromartie, who directs the Evangelicals in Civic Life program at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington.

It is true that the Church has not been successful in influencing public policy.

«It's not a vegetable, but in the world of public policy, sometimes influence industry influences and injects itself into it.

They believed they were following a Continental (specifically German) model by featuring an activist constitutional court — a judicialisation of public policy which would not have escaped generically the American influence.

«This kind of money coming down from a source like this tells me that they want to influence an election where they really don't care about the public policy of the election, they just care about Rob Astorino winning.

Andrew Hawkins of ComRes reveals a new poll, exclusively for Total Politics, which shows that 50 % of the public believe the party has «almost no influence over government policy» · Interview with shadow energy Caroline Flint who says: «I'm ambitious to be seen as someone who has made, and can make, a mega-contribution, but too often politicians focus on that big job and not on with what they need to do.

Influencing and informing public policy, including but not limited to federal and university policies 2.

But a study published online today in the journal Cognition by researchers at the Annenberg Public Policy Center (APPC) of the University of Pennsylvania found that the encyclical did not directly influence people's beliefs about the seriousness of climate change or its effect on the poor.

As far as working for a «change in media coverage,» what is the point of such a change if not to influence public opinion or policy maker action?

«The findings of this very small study are highly preliminary and should not influence public health policy.

Those who influence public policy, especially economists who study the subject, report that student achievement is not effected by class size.

This weekend's Wall Street Journalinterview with the foundation's namesake about those school reform efforts once again hit upon one of the most - salient points I had made: That private - sector donations to public school districts and efforts at influencing policy won't be enough to continue the overhaul of American public education.

The category of «interest groups» is defined for our study as including membership organizations, advocacy organizations not accepting members, businesses, other organizations or institutions, or any association of individuals, policy actors or groups, whether formally organized or not, that tries to influence public policy (Baumgartner & Leech, 1998; Hrebenar, 1997; Kollman, 1998; Sipple et al., 1997; Thomas & Hrebenar, 1991).

As of now, Lowney and Snow have still not registered to lobby despite their ongoing efforts to influence public policy.

Norbert's legacy challenges those of us who engage in predictions to prove our skill and to understand and explain the limitations of our techniques so they are not used erroneously to misinform the public or to influence policy... more about that later and here.

«Norbert's legacy challenges those of us who engage in predictions to prove our skill and to understand and explain the limitations of our techniques so they are not used erroneously to misinform the public or to influence policy»

As far as working for a «change in media coverage,» what is the point of such a change if not to influence public opinion or policy maker action?

Just a minor request... could some of the overwhelming number of acronyms be fleshed out occasionally for those of us who don't necessarily know what they stand for... NIMBY, MBTU, HCFC etc etc... although familiar to many who post, I would like to remind all that we are trying to educate a larger readership, and ultimately influence public policy.

Ghanaian Cardinal Peter Turkson, who advised Pope Francis» encyclical on the environment, has called for church's influence on public policy to be «grounded in realities, not ideas» — yet clearly what the church leaders are calling for will require not reality, but a miracle.

However, I don't appreciate «experts» who use scare tactics and their «good intentions» to influence public policy and opinion.

Apart from the obvious connection that Peabody is a company which stands to lose if climate science influences public policy it is not quite clear why Peabody Energy Company, an American company, chose to influence the British Government in this way.

Climate scientists can not expect to be the beneficiaries of public money and to influence public policy without also accepting the responsibility of providing much more adequate disclosure and due diligence.

Environmentalism has influenced public policy not because of fraud, but because of the intellectual vacuity of politicians.

Corporate influence on climate and environmental policy, meanwhile, is simply more evidence of anti-intellectualism in action, for corporate domination of American society is another result of a public that is not thinking critically.

It's not as much Bush's hostility to «science» that Watts worries about, but the failure of his critics to use «science» to influence public policy.

The study's author, Robert Brulle, refers to these organizations as the climate change counter-movement, and concludes that their outsized influence «has not only played a major role in confounding public understanding of climate science, but also successfully delayed meaningful government policy actions to address the issue.»

Three paragraphs from the end of another of my 2010 articles, I described Rampton's testimony at the ironically titled «Shaping the Message, Distorting the Science: Media Strategies to Influence Public Policy» 2007 House hearing, but not McCarthy's.

One can assume that the Troika will continue to exert pressure and affect policies, but this influence will not be disclosed by fear of bringing the «T - word» back to the public discourse.

«This distorting influence affected not only the participants» perception of the degree of consensus, but also their judgments of whether there was sufficient consensus to use it to guide public policy,» Koehler concluded.

Since 2003, the relevant regulatory authority for both television and radio has become the Office of Communications (Ofcom), and perhaps for the avoidance of doubt the basic rule receives further elaboration in CA 2003, s 321 (3), which provides that political objects include not only promoting political parties and influencing election outcomes, but also «influencing public opinion» and «influencing the policies or decisions of governments, whether in the United Kingdom or elsewhere».

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... The perspectives of young children, although compelling, have not had much influence in public policy debates about custody and visitation.