Sentences with phrase «political homogeneity»

While the ideology of the district judge may matter only modestly when viewed from a national perspective, if a Court of Appeals is «politically» homogeneous, then one can expect large differences in how district judges sentence in the circuit where the members of the court of appeals are simpatico as compared with how district judges sentence in a circuit where the members of the court of appeals lacks political homogeneity.

The impact of political homogeneity on civic climate is about the same as that of the average parents» education, which is noteworthy given that education and the status it confers has long been recognized as a major facilitator of social norms generally and of civic engagement specifically.

And you will find partisans on both sides — given the growing political homogeneity of large cities and rural counties — spouting the merits of local control.

That is what Carl Schmitt already referred to in 1928 (2003: 356) when he emphasized the necessity of (existential) cultural and political homogeneity to ensure the stability of federal states.

Not exact matches

«Euclidean space is defined by its «isotopy» (or homogeneity), a property which guarantees its social and political utility.

Neglecting these «output» and «input» aspects of legitimacy and giving priority instead to a euronationalist justification of a European sovereignty in the making could also turn out to be detrimental to individual freedoms: the illusion of homogeneity it would produce could incite European citizens to support policies sold by political leaders as being in the interest of the European «community» or «people», but actually only serving a tiny minority.