Sentences with phrase «nature of public policy»

Such general actions would be appropriate given the nature of the public policy threat, in contrast to the prejudice - based expulsions prohibited by the directive.

The nature of public policy debates in the United States in recent years has tended to exclude - or, at least, to suggest that we ought to exclude - religious considerations.

The four countries studied differ in terms of the nature of public policy towards telecommunications and the Internet.

Not exact matches

The bottom line is that the American public is being fed a carefully crafted mythology (no doubt «market tested» on «response groups» to see which images fly best) to mislead the American public into misunderstanding the nature of today's financial problem — to mislead it in such a way that today's policies will make sense and gain voter support.

The use by respondents of a multilevel marketing program, which is in the nature of a lottery, is contrary to the public policy of the United States and is an unfair act and practice and an act of unfair competition within the intent and meaning of Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act.

Given the inherently incremental nature of welfare reform, the new legislation represents, despite its shortcomings, a noteworthy advance in public policy.

For that is precisely what so much of the spiritually impoverished world of radical secularism and lifestyle libertinism now denies: that there is any «human nature» which public policy and law must respect.

On the contrary, there are standards of right and wrong within Christian tradition concerning human sexuality, based in human nature and biblical revelation, which are acceptable to homosexual and heterosexual alike, and which can form the moral basis of public policy.

James A. Nash of the Churches» Center for Theology and Public Policy vigorously attacks Derr's alleged indifference to the inherent integrity of nature, and Richard John Neuhaus, agreeing with the gist of Derr's argument, calls for a more thoroughly Christocentric understanding of the creation.

Much as the Study of Theological Education in the United States and Canada, directed by H. Richard Niebuhr in the 1950s, became an influential inquiry into the nature of the church and its ministry, so the Danforth study, ostensibly of campus ministries, became an important resource for exploring the necessary relation of religious faith, social ethics and public - policy formulation.

After all, it was through political and legal struggles over many years, and as a result of compromises, that other Western democracies recognized the pluralistic nature of a free society and adopted policies protecting the rights of parents and of educators to maintain and receive public funding for faith - based schools.

Perhaps best known for his text on the sociology of religion, The Sacred Canopy, Berger has also shown a keen interest in issues of development and public policy and in the nature of religious belief in the modern world, as evident in A Far Glory: The Question of Faith in an Age of Credulity (1992) and in his most recent book, Redeeming Laughter: The Comic Dimension of Human Experience.

In policy documents like the 2002 National Security Strategy of the United States and this past November's National Strategy for Victory in Iraq, the Bush administration» convinced that the attacks of September 11 defined a pivotal moment in world politics» has laid down a sharp challenge to certain well - entrenched ideas about the nature of «realism» in international affairs, even as its policy on the ground has challenged numerous conventions of post-World War II international public life.

Concussion and Sports - Related Head Injury: Code 26-53-102 (2011) requires each amateur sports organization (definition includes public and private schools) to adopt and enforce a concussion and head injury policy that describes the nature and risk of a concussion or traumatic head injury and risk of continuing to participate in a sporting event after sustaining such an injury.

It should not be a shock to me or anyone else he's going to advocate for the policies of his candidate, however misguided they may be, including public financing of campaigns and tuition for illegal immigrants and things of that nature.

Governments must craft public policies carefully so as to mediate between the emotionality, amorality and egoism of human nature and our nine dignity needs.

The FT disapprovingly quotes our manifesto «The conservatives often talk about economic and social crises as if they are unavoidable, a law of nature... Conservatives have pursued a policy of blind faith in the market - serving the interests of the few rather than the general public...».

Fair Elections for New York, one of the groups pushing for establishment of a public campaign finance system, is hosting a free screening tonight of «Pricele $ $,» a documentary that looks at the pervasive nature of political cash and its power in shaping policy at the national level.

Given that the Blairites prided themselves on their electoral savvy and ability to manage public opinion, then the Iraq war was disastrous in their own terms, quite independent of the criminal nature of their policy.

Given the specific nature of this question on science in public policy, we have not found related public statements as of press time.

Ehringhaus, working with colleagues from the AAMC as well as Massachusetts General Hospital and the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, sent surveys to the deans of 125 medical schools, both public and private, questioning them about the scope and nature of their ICOI policies.

The results suggest that there should be: improvements to policy and management to champion biodiversity issues; a strengthening of environmental laws and enforcement; recognition of socio - economic issues especially among indigenous and local communities; increases in funding and resource allocation; knowledge, research and development to inform decision making; a greater understanding and protection of the rights of nature and cultural heritage; a more holistic public awareness and participation to bring about change to promote conservation.

However, the team asserts, «The multi-dimensional nature of the debate about the future of Australia's desert region often leaves policy makers with little overarching synthesis to guide public policy.»

«Given the tremendous power of media outlets to set the agenda for public discussion, the ideological and policy perspectives of those who own media outlets have considerable importance for the nature of American democracy and public policy,» the researchers write in their Science report.

Fellows provide much - needed in - house expertise in the areas of science, technology and engineering, helping Congress to legislate more effectively on public policy issues of a scientific and technical nature.

He added, «Equally important, state and local policy makers can use the online tool to better understand the nature of their air pollution problem so they can consider the best solutions for addressing their particular problem and improving the public's health.»

Though the verdict was based on a technicality related to the scope of the term «product of nature,» Plomer argues the verdict «calls into question patent policies which put the rights of organizations motivated by the pursuit of profit above the public interest and rights to equal and free access to open science.»

We can not predict how genetic information might be used in the context of public health or policy decisions; indeed, establishing thresholds for utility in the public health context is made difficult by the probabilistic nature of genomic information.

«On the contrary, by asserting in a prominent place (the journal Nature) that this non-existent risk needs solution, these papers subtract from the ability of the body politic to do sensible risk assessment to create sensible public policy.

Indeed, a recent poll by the Public Policy Institute of California found that 30 percent of children ages 13 - 17 «never took part in outdoor nature activities such as camping, hiking, or backpacking,» while 17 percent had engaged in those activities only once.

The whole point is to encourage discussion and debate about the nature of responsible public engagement, how different folks fare, how much these things matter, and how to accurately measure a policy scholar's value.

The tenacity of these elements in definitions of LD has grounded our public policies and pedagogy in outdated science and flawed understandings of the nature of these disabilities.

The standard of political and moral performance required to consider should be the following: 1) increase of solidarity among the inhabitants of the country; 2) increase in the practice of social justice by organs of government and civil society; 3) increase in the distribution of income and wealth among the population; 4) increase of measures to preserve and care for nature; 5) increase in policies for integral development of education in accordance with the highest human values; 6) advances in the realization of the collective will of the citizens; 7) improvement of political institutions; 8) success in combating corruption measured by its reduction; 9) increase in the exercise of citizenship with the effective participation of citizens in government decisions and fight for expansion of their rights; and 10) increase of contribution of public and private organizations to the political, economic, social and environmental development of the country.

Funded by: Smith Richardson Foundation via subcontract w / Brown University Amount: $ 10,843 Dates: 1/1/17 — 7/1/20 Summary: In collaboration with researchers from Brown University Dr. Jones will examine the effects of Boston Public School's autonomous hiring policy reform on student, teacher, and school outcomes, with the broader goal of examining the nature and challenges of the teacher hiring and match process in large urban school districts.

• Educators need to do a better job of communicating with the public, policy - makers, and other stakeholders about the nature of teaching and learning.

Congress has determined that these types of debts are not dischargeable for public policy reasons (based either on the nature of the debt or the fact that the debts were incurred due to improper behavior of the debtor, such as the debtor's drunken driving).

By locating the roots of environmental politics and public policy in the construction of knowledge about nature, Dion questions the authoritative role of the scientific voice in contemporary society.

I was somewhat involuntarily thrust into the center of the public debate over climate change at this very time, when the «Hockey Stick» temperature reconstruction I co-authored, depicting the unprecedented nature of modern warming in at least the past millennium, developed into an icon in the debate over human - caused climate change [particularly when it was featured in the Summary for Policy Makers (SPM) of the Third Assessment Report of the IPCC in 2001].

And given that people have a very poor understanding of the stocks and flows nature of GHG's (see John Sterman's paper, «Cloudy Skies: Assessing Public Understanding of Global Warming», http://web.mit.edu/jsterman/www/), I'm not as comfortable as Peter that there will be timely breakthroughs in technological fixes, public understanding, and pPublic Understanding of Global Warming», http://web.mit.edu/jsterman/www/), I'm not as comfortable as Peter that there will be timely breakthroughs in technological fixes, public understanding, and ppublic understanding, and policy.

Rebuttal of «Rebuttal of «On global forces of nature driving the Earth's Climate Science and Public Policy Institute, 19 July 2007

This goes to what I describe in Chapter 4 as the policy - dependent nature of wider public perceptions as well as our own ideological biases as a community of people actively working to create social change on the issue.

Now, Matthew Nisbet, a communications researcher at American University who has focused of late on climate campaigns (generating no shortage of sparks), takes a long deep look at McKibben's career in «Nature's Prophet: Bill McKibben as Journalist, Public Intellectual and Activist,» a paper published by Harvard University's Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, where Nisbet recently completed a residency.

The American Security Project is a non-profit, bipartisan public policy and research initiative to educate the American public about the changing nature of national security in the 21st century.

To a wide segment of the American public, the dramatic increase in world oil prices may not have immediately registered, but skyrocketing gasoline prices brought home the nature of the crisis, prompting a recognized need for a national energy policy.

The first book to describe an ecologically sound approach to the planning and design of communities, Design with Nature has done much over the past 25 years to shape public environmental policy.

Lynn Scarlett The former Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior is currently Managing Director for Public Policy at The Nature Conservancy.

Externalities may be addressed by either a tax / credit or some other public policy, public ownership and management of the commons, or privatization of the commons, or through court actions — each option may have it's own costs — for example, the large - scale privatization of the climate system may be impractical with given technology (analogy with toll roads), and even without that, it has at least an aesthetic cost (nature is supposed to be nature; and psychologically, humans may benifit from some amount of public space) and perhaps scientific (ie nature — in this context, nature as it is with relatively small impacts of humankind — is not nature if it is not being itself) costs; there may be inefficiencies in the court system that could be bypassed for issues that are easily addressed with legislation (unless we had a class - action lawsuit on behalf of all people now until the year).

Because nature does not charge for the ecosystem services it provides, pricing these externalities is a matter of public policy, which can be addressed through a wide variety of financial as well as regulatory mechanisms, such as carbon taxes, land - value assessments, and / or various forms of ecological - use fees (Sanderson 2013).

He has authored scores of essays and articles that have appeared in such journals as Nature, Reuters, Wall Street Journal, The American Prospect, Public Policy Research, Quarterly Review, Yes!

Mark Bittman writes that the bill doesn't address the public policies it should, such as «encouragement and support for would - be new farmers and small farmers; «conservation» in the form of agriculture that doesn't seek to defeat nature; increased funding for research into sustainable agriculture.»