Sentences with phrase «policy discourse on»

Today I want to make a much stronger policy claim: that Canada has a uniquely stupid policy discourse on innovation.

His previous book with Palgrave Macmillan is entitled Policy Discourses on Irregular Migration in Germany and the United Kingdom http://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9781137307538#otherversion=9781137307545 and his most recent article is A Hermeneutical Approach to European Bordering http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14782804.2016.1148591

Vollmer, B. (2014) Policy Discourses on Irregular Migration in Germany and the United Kingdom.

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Facebook is rolling out a pair of verification policies meant to «support positive discourse and prevent interference» in elections, founder Mark Zuckerberg announced on Friday.

That this has had the most profound impact on our politics is obvious: The American culture war, which is one of the preeminent issues - beneath - the - issues, shapes the public discourse on both domestic and foreign - policy questions every day.

Footage of educators, policy makers, and young people at the center of our film is complemented by a rich spectrum of individuals who are important to school lunch policy and administration but who are rarely included in popular discourse on the subject.

The amendment to the civil liberties policy motion read: «The protection of freedom of expression, by reforming the libel laws in England and Wales to ensure a better balance is provided between free speech, responsible journalism, scientific discourse and the public interest on one hand and powerful corporations, wealthy individuals and vested interests on the other.»

The Social Liberal Forum contributes to the discourse on public policy within the Liberal Democrats and in the public realm through events, blog posts and opinion articles, engagement with the media and political leaders and through publications.

I believe that such appeals carry grave threats to democratic discourse, and I think it wrong that faith groups, which in the United States and here enjoy significant hidden subsidies from other taxpayers, should award themselves a special right to influence the law and public policy and seek to impose their views on others who disagree with them.»

Over the course of a 45 - minute interview recently at his Town of Ulster headquarters, Gibson offered warm words for half a dozen local Democrats, including Kingston Mayor Shayne Gallo and County Executive Mike Hein, in between detail - rich discourses on agricultural policy and the ongoing recovery from Hurricane Irene.

The public can quickly sour on a a self - made, wealthy, engaging but untelegenic businessman candidate who indulges in rambling discourses, doesn't really understand government operations or policy issues and overpromises / underdelivers on self - funding.

Hogan has always limited his public discourse to Maryland issues and ran on a strictly fiscal policy issue, and not making any moves against social policies that were enacted by the previous administration).

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«They've played an invaluable role of maintaining the ongoing discourse on congestion pricing,» said Scott Rechler, chairman of the Regional Planning Association, an influential urban policy group, and another member of the state task force.

To draw a perfect analogy, a professional redistricting commission would draw Congressional districts without the objective of creating safe seats for either party as a policy and content monitor at «The Fix» would have the objective of creating civil, on - topic discourse.

Both public policy and justice are better served if public discourse on these issues is scientifically grounded and if people appreciate the promise of genetic knowledge and the human consequences of its uses.

Thus, according to the authors, an open and honest discourse on this topic would be of great importance for health policy - makers and providers of health services to have.

As the Director of Policy and Global Partnerships at OpenBiome, Carolyn Edelstein oversees OpenBiome's efforts to expand the availability of Fecal Microbiota Transplantation overseas, present its work to the public, and contribute to the discourse on the regulation of fecal microbiota.

About Blog Policy Forum Armenia (PFA) is an independent professional non-profit organization aimed at strengthening discourse on Armenia's economic development and national security and through that helping to shape public policy in ArPolicy Forum Armenia (PFA) is an independent professional non-profit organization aimed at strengthening discourse on Armenia's economic development and national security and through that helping to shape public policy in Arpolicy in Armenia.

Ewing, who is currently completing her dissertation «Shuttered Schools in the Black Metropolis: Race, History, and Discourse on Chicago's South Side» — a look at the 2013 public school closures in Chicago, and the relationship between such closures and the structural history of race and racism in Chicago's Bronzeville community — is a sociologist focused on issues of racism, social inequality, and urban policy.

By building strong collaborations between researchers, community organizations, and policy makers, The Civil Rights Project hopes to raise the level of discourse on targeted issues and to reframe the tone and content of many of the current legal and political debates.

In order to shift the public and professional discourse that shapes early childhood policy and practice, the Center on the Developing Child follows a three - stage knowledge translation process to 1) Synthesize the research; 2) Translate the knowledge; and 3) Communicate the translated science to our target audiences using a variety of media forms and formats.

Scores are designed to acknowledge scholars who are actively engaged in public discourse and whose work has an impact on practice and policy.

Serving classroom teachers and instructional leaders with news, information, opinion, and service journalism, the online Education Week Teacher promotes professional engagement, idea - sharing, and a lively but civil discourse on issues of education policy and teacher practice.

While the national discourse focuses on the merits of school choice initiatives in their own right and for their own sakes, as leaders of state and local education systems, as educators of diverse regional, political, and professional backgrounds, we believe that these policies are better thought of as means to critical ends, and that the goal of these and other education policies should be, above all else, the enhancement of skills for America's youngest generation and expanded opportunity for children to thrive as adults.

Spin Cycle: How Research Gets Used in Policy Debates: The Case of Charter Schools (Russell Sage Foundation, 2008) focuses on the controversy surrounding the charter school study by the American Federation of Teachers and its implications for understanding politics, politicization, and the use of research to inform public discourse; it won the American Educational Research Association's Outstanding Book Award in 2010.

It is imperative that our unions and largest associations find ways to build spaces for member action, and to focus member discourse on innovative practices and policy.

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Pioneer Institute is an independent, non-partisan, privately funded research organization that seeks to improve the quality of life in Massachusetts through civic discourse and intellectually rigorous, data - driven public policy solutions based on free market principles, individual liberty and responsibility, and the ideal of effective, limited and accountable government.

Students investigate the complicated history of the Progressive Era, focusing on the influence of the Eugenics Movement on public policy and social discourse.

My dissertation explores this convergence and shows (1) how schoolgirl pregnancy has come to be understood and constituted as a social problem by a range of actors and (2) how discourses on, and policies related to, pregnant students shape the possibilities for young women's wellbeing and schooling experiences.

By studying the Twitter conversation surrounding the Common Core, we shed light on the ways that social media - enabled social networks are influencing the political discourse that, in turn, produces public policy.

On the 50th anniversary of the War on Poverty, Cantor was among several high - profile lawmakers raising a GOP voice in the national discourse around poverty and policOn the 50th anniversary of the War on Poverty, Cantor was among several high - profile lawmakers raising a GOP voice in the national discourse around poverty and policon Poverty, Cantor was among several high - profile lawmakers raising a GOP voice in the national discourse around poverty and policy.

Rennie Center for Education Research and Policy The Rennie Center conducts independent research to promote public discourse on educational improvement and inform policy discussions by key decision makers and opinion lePolicy The Rennie Center conducts independent research to promote public discourse on educational improvement and inform policy discussions by key decision makers and opinion lepolicy discussions by key decision makers and opinion leaders.

For the past decade, the predominant NCLB - inspired educational policy discourse has focused on top - down policies.

This is an important issue of public policy and we should be able to have an honest discourse on it.

Across two venues the works and archives on display show how a new generation of practitioners were responding to a range of discourses and politics: Civil Rights - era «Black art» from the US; Margaret Thatcher's anti-immigration policies and the resulting uprisings across the country; apartheid in South Africa; and black feminism.

This course contains solution - based content encouraging discourse on energy production and extraction, peak oil, fossil fuel subsidies, energy efficiency, equity, energy policy and environmental impacts.

The Collaboratorium, a creation of the Center for Collective Intelligence, is trying to establish a template for meaningful, concrete, forward - moving discourse on climate, energy, and policy.

Steven E. Koonin, once the Obama administration's undersecretary of energy for science and chief scientist at BP, stirred up a swirl of turbulence in global warming discourse this week after The Wall Street Journal published «Climate Science is Not Settled,» his essay calling for more frankness about areas of deep uncertainty in climate science, more research to narrow error ranges and more acknowledgement that society's decisions on energy and climate policy are based on values as much as data.

Thus it seems almost every point of view can be argued based on a strategically formulated carbon budget, and the main value of the budgets are as communication tools, giving views with widely different and incompatible policy implications a similar standing in the public discourse.

«They've played an invaluable role of maintaining the ongoing discourse on congestion pricing,» said Scott Rechler, chairman of the Regional Planning Association, an influential urban policy group, and another member of the state task force.

And throughout the year, we went on to pursue those ideas at a policy level and to bring them to public discourse from our respective capacities as [continue reading...]

Mackinac's director of labor policy is Vincent Vernuccio, who chairs a committee of the labor task force of the Bradley - supported American Legislative Exchange Council and previously has worked at the Bradley - supported Capital Research Center and Bradley - supported Competitive Enterprise Institute... MCLF spent much of last year helping to defend the new right - to - work law, in policy and legal arguments, as well as in the larger public discourse in the state and nationally... MCLF is working with the Bradley - supported National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation on this and several other legal matters surrounding implementation of right to work in Michigan... On education, among other things, Mackinac is analyzing mroe [sic] than 200 collective - bargaining agreements (CBAs) in the state, covering some 75 % of the state's public - school students, to see if and if so, how, they are adhering to the teacher - tenure and - evaluation policy changeon this and several other legal matters surrounding implementation of right to work in Michigan... On education, among other things, Mackinac is analyzing mroe [sic] than 200 collective - bargaining agreements (CBAs) in the state, covering some 75 % of the state's public - school students, to see if and if so, how, they are adhering to the teacher - tenure and - evaluation policy changeOn education, among other things, Mackinac is analyzing mroe [sic] than 200 collective - bargaining agreements (CBAs) in the state, covering some 75 % of the state's public - school students, to see if and if so, how, they are adhering to the teacher - tenure and - evaluation policy changes.

These millions were spent on a range of activities including PR, social media, advertising, and lobbying, in order to influence American and European policy makers and manipulate public discourse on climate change.

Like Boykoff, I chose these 3 news organizations because previous research shows that these outlets have major impacts on policy discourse and decision - making and because these outlets also influence coverage decisions at other news outlets.

The one significant book on the subject I've come across (and I haven't looked exhaustively, so please enlighten me if there is more out there) The Social Construction of Climate Change: Power Knowledge Norms Discourses, ME Pettenger really deals only with the question of how climate change advocacy fails to capture the policy agenda.

Again, we are presented with the implications of the power of an industry with vested interests to manipulate public discourse on a topic, and push policy in a desired direction despite clear scientific evidence that these actions are neither sustainable nor in the long term public interest.

Finally, with few exceptions, the conversation on city resilience has not made it into the national policy discourse in any meaningful way, which could translate to a central mandate to cities.

In the USA, the «Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change» (NIPCC) report (Idso et al. 2009; NIPCC 2013), the «Science & Environmental Policy Project» (SEPP), and the Heartland Institute have played an active role in the public discourse, providing a platform for the public dissemination of papers at variance with the notion of anthropogenic climate change.