Sentences with phrase «of ideological preferences»

Freeden: The «correctness» of thinking politically is to be gauged either on ethical standards or within a framework of ideological preferences (the two may overlap).

Because the political process exists to allow for the expression of those ideological preferences.

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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?»

The peril of nuclear war is so great that it may bridge the great ideological chasm between the two blocs and make them conscious of having one thing in common: preference for life over death (The Structure of Nations and Empires [Scribner's, 1959]-RRB-.

All that would be necessary to make a claim of future harm is some remote possible correlation — i.e., an opinion or ideological or fabricated «cultural» preference.

My case for unrestricted political advertising is based on three elements: an ideological preference for freedom, the practical consideration that it would reengage the public, and that it would boost the competitiveness of the political market.

Her general research interests lie at the intersection of international and domestic politics and political economy with a particular focus on International Monetary Fund (IMF) programmes, labour markets, macro-economic reform, and ideological and electoral preferences.

When pollsters make surveys they are only interested in figuring out the present state of the people's ideological preferences.

Supporters of choice claim that parents look mainly for the best academic opportunity for their children; critics charge that parents will just as often search for a school on the basis of ethnic, religious, or ideological preferences, the quality of the sports program, or how blue the student body's blood is.

And he examines some of the ideological baggage that environmentalists have brought to the climate change debate — from anti-consumerism and anti-Capitalism to a suspicion about technology and a preference for natural solutions.

The irony is that the reason that environmentalists are blind to such goings on is their own ideological preference; the «ethics of climate change» only work one way.