Sentences with phrase «of ideological arguments»

What I noticed was the surfeit of ideological arguments and the paucity of respect for experience.

Not exact matches

This argument, which seems more ideological than empirical, is based on standard trade theory in which there is an implicit assumption that any intervention will drive trade performance away from its optimum, so that the United States always gains from the further opening up of its own market, even if trade partners don't reciprocate.

Reilly's argument, though extended, is simple: America's leaders lost their way by forgetting Aristotle and becoming ideological slaves of Rousseau.

Progressive legal theorists exploited this doctrinal disjunction to argue that the justices» opposition to economic reforms was fundamentally ideological and thus illegitimate: «If the public's evolving attitude towards liquor and lotteries had been sufficient to justify a rethinking of economic rights and federalism constraints, the argument went, then what else but the subjective policy preferences of the justices themselves could explain the Court's stubborn resistance to other, broadly popular forms of «social» legislation?»

Such arguments are the hallmark of the «ideological» school of early American historiography, of which Banning is a prominent (if sometimes dissenting) member.

The symbolic nature of the struggle is stated succinctly in Roman's discussion of the 1917 constitutional congress: «Although other arguments were also used against the clergy, the issue returned time and again to the saving and the building of the nation and to destroying the ideological domination of the church» (italics added).55 Article 3.

Calling someone names and making direct ad hominem attacks (and YES... the TROLL started ALL of that FIRST) is not an ideological argument.

The personal and the social are linked, not through ideological arguments, but in a theological understanding of grace.

And it is part of an ideological system that adapts to complex, heterogeneous environments by decoupling arguments and personalizing them to fit unique situations.6

He took this job after spending years staunchly opposing a playoff in college football while acting as executive director of the BCS, using increasingly absurd arguments to defend his ideological (and financial) position.

While I think his article makes some insightful comments, particularly in regard to the element of bipartisan continuity in U.S. foreign policy, I feel it does injustice to those arguments which do express concerns over both Romney's ideological leanings and his perceived incompetence in the field.

Take the personal allegiances out of it, and policy differences about public service reform are not an ideological argument to cascade down the generations.

The case for assigned revenues simply reflects the Liberal Democrats» ideological argument that the Scottish parliament should raise more than 50 % of its revenues.

In his article Roy sets out to make three arguments: that policy needs to be built on a consistent and coherent idea; that the only tenable ideological position for Labour is a social democratic commitment to greater equality and the freedom that is its product; and that Labour should eschew «news value» in favour of ideology.

The argument against Corbyn isn't about his personal image and manner though, it's that he'd put the Labour party in a ideological and policy position that wouldn't win votes, that the Labour party itself would risk ripping itself apart under a leader with little support among the Parliamentary party and a long history of rebellion.

Anthony King in The British Constitution (2007), for example, considered a line of argument that briefly came to the fore during the turbulent 1970s when adversarial politics and the extremism of party political rides on the «ideological big - dipper» occurred, alleged to have led to economic stagnation, political chaos and a society at odds with itself (270).

«This is too logical a transition for anyone to have an ideological argument against clean energy, because it stands against economic growth and good business sense,» says Daniel Kammen, professor of energy at the University of California, Berkeley, and science envoy for the U.S. State Department, who is attending the talks, «That's what people are saying here — they're incredulous that anyone would want to back off on this.»

It's much more likely the safe and predictable likes of Argo (much more worthy of ideological criticism than ZDK, incidentally, but that's another argument) or Lincoln will emerge triumphant — solid films in their own right, but par for the course when it comes to award hyperbole.

Upcoming EdCasts will highlight the need of global citizenship in a polarizing ideological landscape, the importance of summer reading in urban schools, the role of the university as community servant, and the argument for $ 320,000 a year kindergarten teachers.

«Her arguments are sound, rooted in evidence, and unencumbered by the kinds of ideological partisanship that characterizes too much of current debates on education.

A problem with Loveless's argument is that many of my fellow «disruptors» and I who think that it is important to disrupt the education system think this way not under the mindset that it will — or should — help with multiple intelligences or learning styles, but instead because of a simpler and more rigorously tested notion that is far less ideological than Loveless assumes.

``... It is simply outrageous that members of Congress would put an ideological argument above the important work the FAA does... And how, as our nation sluggishly continues to try to recover from the recession, can you throw 4,000 FAA employees, and an unknown number of contractors, out of work?

For me, there are major flaws in these arguments, which I think place way too much faith in the wisdom of crowds (an oxymoron, in my opinion)-- but I think the anger about gatekeeping is an ideological issue, rather than a wholesale rejection of quality standards.

This is not solely an exercise of «viewing» but a conceptual re-interpretation of textual historical inheritance, ideological arguments and conflicting realities.

In 1981, my Harvard colleague, political scientist Steven Kelman surveyed Congressional staff members, and found that support and opposition to market - based environmental policy instruments was based largely on ideological grounds: Republicans, who supported the concept of economic - incentive approaches, offered as a reason the assertion that «the free market works,» or «less government intervention» is desirable, without any real awareness or understanding of the economic arguments for market - based programs.

What do you call someone who opens a blog post with a false accusation, segues into an unfounded generalization, slams credible scientists without justification, cites research out of context, and picks apart an argument no one ever made — all, apparently, to keep his fragile ideological worldview intact, even at the expense of the global economy?

Finally, the evidence has mounted up that, with a handful of exceptions, «sceptics» are not, as they claim, fearless seekers after scientific truth, but ideological partisans and paid advocates, presenting dishonest arguments for a predetermined party - line conclusion.

Totalitarian propaganda raised ideological scientificality and its technique of making statements in the form of predictions to a height of efficiency of method and absurdity of content because, demagogically speaking, there is hardly a better way to avoid disussion than by releasing an argument from the control of the present and by saying that only the future can reveal its merits.

In particular, it is sometimes argued that (a) despite past public communication efforts, public understanding of the scientific consensus has not changed much in the last decade and hence the approach must not be very effective (i.e., «the stasis argument»)[13] and (b) because people are predisposed to engage in protective motivated reasoning (i.e., people process information consistent with their ideological worldviews), consensus - messaging is likely to be unsuccessful or could even backfire [12, 14].

One way out of this impasse, I would suggest to Lynas, is to admit to the political or «ideological» aspects of the climate debate and even his own argument.

Even, if you can not judge the technical arguments, you can follow, how various people present their arguments and, how willing they appear to be in basing their views on specifics of each issue details rather than an overwhelming ideological view that makes the conclusions fully predictable and apparently independent of the quality of supporting arguments.

Editor's note: Once upon a time, political arguments over the content of science education focused on a single topic: evolution.While it would be wonderful to think that such debates ended with the Scopes Monkey Trial, I live in Missouri... where some members of our legislature still think our science classrooms are the proper places for ideological debates.

Moreover, I have had many arguments with people of an alarmist bent in which it has become obvious that they are keener on a society organised around the authority of climate science than they are keen on understanding precisely what climate science has determined, which is to say that such a position is nakedly «ideological», yet owes very little of its understanding to science.

The arguments have deeper psychological underpinnings, philosophical and ideological implications, and social subtexts about public rights versus private goods, the human right to water, free markets, the appropriate role of governments, and conflicting visions of the future.»

When I read Lomborg, I see a ideological polemic argument, not an honest depiction of the facts.

Notice the ideological «argument» is / was pretty much the last bastion of every other issue that the conlibertarians have ever touched: tobacco, nuclear winter, gun control,...

There are a lot of technical aspects to their argument (that I won't get into), but the real crux of their logic is ideological.

The debate revealed a number of issues, often relating to different outcomes, entangled by ideological and political argument.