Sentences with phrase «policy preferences»

Every state school finance formula system is unique — reflecting the nuances of revenue structures, student demographics, governance models, and policy preferences in state and local communities.

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.

It does not make policy recommendations or suggest policy preferences, thus is consistent with IPCC practice.

They can try to predict the rest of the president's future policy preferences and priorities while they are at it.

However, the novel result was that a normative message — this time regarding the emission policy preferences of others within a presumed peer group — also increased the amount people were prepared to reduce Australia's emissions.

Participants (N = 1,200) were randomly assigned to a no - norm condition in which no normative message was provided or to a with - norm condition in which normative information about the emission policy preferences of participants from Study 1 was conveyed within the graphical interfaces.

In practice activism means judges shedding their inhibitions about reading their own policy preferences into law and especially constitutions on the ground that they are «living documents» (rendered effectively dead - letter).

Note that it is worth distinguishing between letters that have been voluntarily signed and lists that have been gathered with nothing but political point scoring in mind (the Inhofe / Morano list was egregious in its cherry picking of quotes in order to build up its numbers and can't be relied on as an accurate reflection of peoples opinions in any way, and similarly contributing to RealClimate is not a statement about policy preferences!).

These decisions were made by policy makers taking science into account, but they were not dictated by any of the science, nor by the scientists as a whole (obviously individual scientists have personal policy preferences like everyone else).

True, the Federalist Society includes under its tent those with a variety of policy preferences regarding «marriage equality,» from social conservatives shaking their heads to libertarians clapping their hands.

The U.S. Department of Education is already forcing the states to adopt its central command and control policy preferences through coercive measures, including by offering newly created waivers to NCLB requirements in exchange for adopting Common Core's standards and their national assessment

Configuring registry - based policy settings and Group Policy Preferences Registry settings: Update, retrieval, and removal.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The PPIC Statewide Survey has provided policymakers, the media, and the general public with objective, advocacy - free information on the perceptions, opinions, and public policy preferences of California residents since 1998.

However, we should be concerned about the judiciary re-writing statutes other than in cases of absurdity since this could become a backdoor for judges to implant their own policy preferences over that of the legislature.

In Klein's book The Shock Doctrine, she explains how immediately after Hurricane Katrina, Friedman used the decimation of New Orleans» infrastructure to push for charter schools, a market - based policy preference of Friedman acolytes.

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.

«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.

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.

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.

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.

Respectfully, Brexit appears less a genuine policy preference than the avoidable consequence of a legitimate sense of dispossession and disenfranchisement.

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.

To believe Owen Smith stands a chance of winning the next election for Labour, many of his most vocal supporters are even guiltier than Jeremy Corbyn's apparently «fanatical» followers of confusing their own privileged policy preferences with those of the wider electorate, and believing that if they continue to kick and scream and cover their ears, maybe it will all go away.

«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.

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.

3) Inflation effect: since the creation of the Federal Reserve 100 years ago, there has been a clear policy preference over the generations to be tolerant of positive inflation, and intolerant of sustained deflation, with its socially demoralizing effect.

Like many, I'm sure, I've been much more familiar with the climate and energy policy preferences of Jeffrey Sachs, the institute's director.

The starkly contrasting policy preference is for economic and energy growth fueled by whatever energy source makes economic sense at a time and a place.

Those environmentalists were considering new perspectives and reconsidering long - held policy preferences — doing the work.

Given the complexity and multi-faceted nature of policy processes, national - level policy preferences are notoriously difficult to capture.

While policy preferences of group members tracked with their beliefs, their behaviors largely did not: Skeptics reported using public transportation, buying eco-friendly products, and using reusable bags more often than those in the other two categories.

A recent study published in the DePaul Law Review confirms what Supreme Court observers have long suspected, and what former Chief Justice Rehnquist has long feared: that judicial law clerks» ideological policy preferences have an effect on the way the Justices vote.

But I don't think disagreement with you on that is necessarily a sign of policy preferences trumping law; not everyone sees that text as being as powerful as you personally do.

Advancing Support for Child Mental Health Policies: Early Results from Experimental Research (2009) reports on the effects of various frame elements (values, child development principles and explanatory metaphors) on child mental health policy preferences.

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.