Sentences with phrase «own policy preferences»

«In that case, you can both enact your traditional policy preferences without compromise, and enjoy punishing your enemies.»

For starters, though Trump's China policy preferences are largely unknown, one can make some inferences by examining his nominations for key posts that have major responsibilities for managing U.S. - China relations.

Indeed, shareholder policy preferences can shift very rapidly when activist shareholders arrive on scene and demand sweeping changes in core policies.

Even the best - sourced experts can't discern how policy preferences and objectives shape political coalitions or élite Party divisions, and we lack critical diagnostic information that would be necessary to confirm or refute competing hypotheses about major political questions.

His long - term policy preferences haven't changed, but he needs to pretend they have shifted (and he might even need to carry out policies he disagrees with) in order to move policy in his direction at all.

There is of course no reason why anyone who doesn't share Seidman's policy preferences would go along with whatever rewriting of the Constitution that he and his confederates dream up.

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?»

And, of course, everybody should refrain from trying to capture the churches» credibility and resources for the promotion of their own clutch of policy preferences.

But too often since then, it has again mortgaged its authority to enact sheer policy preferences — this time despite the historical evidence that an imperious judiciary promises no straighter path to justice.

The candidates risk their general election prospects, while populist conservatives see neither their ideals defended nor their policy preferences advanced.

Senator Jeff Flake refused to endorse Trump in the 2016 general election and recently wrote a book explaining that the GOP should return to its healthy roots, which correspond with Flake's policy preferences.

First of all, in their attitudes toward legalized abortion, beliefs about abortion, and policy preferences pertaining to abortion, the members of those two groups, not surprisingly, are almost as different as they possibly could be.

After all, Clint's stated policy preferences — e.g., bring home all troops but keep Camp X-Ray at Guantanamo alive because we have spent so much money on it — reflected the seeming impossibility of being consistent today.

It's clear that the Republican establishment's immigration policy preferences aren't based on the need for «inclusion» or the need to «grow» the party.

According to polling data, a significantly larger fraction of African - American and Hispanic voters have right - leaning policy preferences when it comes to size of government issues than voted for Romney.

The «propositional nation» right is glad to talk about the contributions of immigrants (especially when asking Congress to permit more guest workers to staff their businesses), but their policy preferences (tax cuts for themselves, entitlement cuts for wage - earners) will never seem inclusive.

This strategy largely writes off the non-evangelical white working - class in the hopes of winning over nonwhite voters and it aligns Republican policy even more closely with the policy preferences of the Washington business lobbies.

I myself argued that the judges» unelected status «creates the risk that [they] will simply enact their own policy preferences, leaving the citizenry no easy means of correction,» and thus judges should stick close to the text and history of a constitutional provision.

These «necessities,» by a curious coincidence, have almost always matched the policy preferences of intellectuals, who tend to see the Constitution as a kind of perpetual work - in - progress, an instrument ever open to their expert ministry.

I have some On The Square thoughts about how some kinds of respect for Obama's words and the concerns of some Obama supporters could be used to defeat Obama's policy preferences.

Four justices are solidly conservative and there is little doubt about their policy preferences.

He's still pretty conservative and in a recent analysis, I've applied the model from The Constrained Court to estimate the policy preferences of justices and how they would map onto the vote on the health care legislation (it's all based on a statistical model that links the Court and Congress via positions members of one institution take on votes in the other).

Neither Goldsmith nor Khan are household names and in a more low - key battle, the public's party and policy preferences may end up having more of an effect than they did during the celebrity contests between Boris and Ken.

You would have to establish that the total tax paid by the election winning voters was more than the total tax paid by the election losing voters to make any valid claim about taxes paid and policy preferences.

But they are likely to have more power to influence a Conservative - led government than a Labour one because the Con - Lib policy preference gap is greater than the Lab - Lib one, especially on Europe.

The 1997 survey of California voters revealed significantly different policy preferences between party members and primary voters who «crossed over» from another party.

The trouble with a VAT system (or benefit, depending upon your economic and policy preferences), however, is that unlike an income tax, a VAT does not tax investment income that is not spent on VAT taxable goods or services.

«So, telling a pollster that the phenomenon isn't happening may reflect something about a person's general policy preferences, not just their level of certainty that the global climate is changing.»

In a dissenting opinion, they accused the court of imposing «its own bare policy preferences» to protect vaccine manufacturers and said it was important for companies to be pushed, at times by litigation, to improve on existing vaccines.

«We've found that having more information changes people's policy preferences,» Brennan says.

They express their policy preferences through different styles of dance but are thwarted by groups like parliaments that can block the policymaking process, represented by turning off the music.

«This study provides a new framework for understanding the diversity of American views and relationships with the natural world, and how those views affect environmental behavior, lifestyles, and policy preferences,» said Anthony Leiserowitz, a faculty member of The Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies.

This lack of basic knowledge and confidence means that people are uncertain of the facts and the issues at stake, so that how the subject is framed makes an enormous difference in shaping judgments about policy preferences.

Science can be corrupted so that it simply becomes a shield disguising the policy preferences of those in authority.

Federal involvement in education has trended up consistently, aided and abetted by conservatives who might have been expected to prefer local or state or family control of education decisions but instead expanded federal influences that favored their policy preferences, e.g., No Child Left Behind.

This year's poll also finds that President Trump's policy preferences widen the...

Rather than press Congress to pass a law to replace No Child Left Behind (NCLB), the Obama administration used federal stimulus money to encourage states to accept its policy preferences and waivers from NCLB's penalties to ensure those policies were implemented.

He's not just a policy broker, of course; he has strong policy preferences of his own — some of which were viewed not long ago as GOP or conservative ideas.

Although he would occasionally follow precedent instead of the original understanding of constitutional text, Scalia argued that, in general, originalism was the only principled way for judges to avoid enshrining their own policy preferences into the law.

But to ignore originalism and break from precedent to reach a result that is consistent with a personal policy preference is difficult to defend as legally principled.

In short, regardless of your particular policy preferences, there is good reason to move on from the «shiny object» approach to education policy and focus instead on giving old and seemingly dull objects a chance to demonstrate their worth before throwing them in the policy landfill.

That situation is improving due to a greater appreciation of and reliance on research that is of high quality and high relevance as opposed to evidence that is selected and utilized primarily because it provides support for established point of views and policy preferences.

If CEP's research adhered to the generally accepted standards of empirical science, the mere fact that CEP also has policy preferences would not be a legitimate reason to doubt its findings.

The autonomy of private schools and the liberty guaranteed by the Constitution ensure that protecting the rights of people of faith is not merely a policy preference.

Understanding that state education policy makers may be unresponsive to the teacher evaluation policy preferences of both the general public and teachers, I also included two uniform survey questions to understand the value state education policy makers placed on various voices.

Finding # 1: Policy makers are unresponsive to policy preferences of the general public, but they value the voices of constituents.

And, invariably, some education advocates and politicians will seize on the data to advance their policy preferences.

State education policy makers who were randomly exposed to data that revealed the teacher evaluation policy preference of the general public were not significantly more likely to align with the general public's teacher evaluation policy position.

Overall, respondents» positions on teacher evaluation policy appeared to be unaffected by their exposure to the policy preferences of teachers.

Rather, policy makers — particularly Republicans — seem to be nonresponsive (and, in some cases, intentionally unresponsive) to the policy preferences of teachers when presented as an organized group, though they place relatively high value on the voices of individual teachers.