Sentences with phrase «political incentives»

What about the related issue, that this will create additional political incentive for people to oppose new transit routes because they now come with massive land - use changes?

With that establishment gone, there are also fewer political incentives to pick Protestant nominees.

This created strong political incentives to support coal production.

Unfortunately, political incentives don't work as well as market forces as evidenced by the massive level of student debt.

There is, of course, zero political incentive for an opposition to spell out the alternative tax rises that it would have implemented.

In short, there are few political incentives to make this reform approach productive.

The pro-European leaders of those countries will have very little political incentive to be soft on Britain, especially since all those countries have anti-EU movements of their own.

In a time of tremendous political incentive to the contrary, InterVarsity has chosen to practice Christian orthodoxy.

We must restore scientific integrity to our public research institutions and remove political incentives from publicly funded research.»

At the same time, increased public and elite concern about the effect of underperforming schools on national equity and economic competitiveness has created new political incentives for policymakers to embrace innovative approaches to teacher quality and school reform generally.

Hess explains that political incentives drive school superintendents to promote reforms — to demonstrate that they are «making a difference.»

The mood was similar among Republican candidates further down the ballot, who are running in gerrymandered House districts where winning a GOP primary is the only victory that matters — providing little political incentive to side with gays and lesbians.

And because the readers for such books do not form a denominational constituency, a denomination has few political incentives for directing its publishing efforts in that direction.

Legislators have neither the sweeping authority, nor strong political incentive, to change a political patronage machine that rewards party donors with high - paying posts and lucrative contracts.

Nor, in light of the polling on this point, does it appear that they have any political incentive to do so.»

They key is to create the political incentives for Republican office holders and candidates who want to position themselves as conservatives to adopt Yuval Levin - style immigration reform.

And Romney's political incentives are pretty messed up.

Given various policy options, this line of thought asserts, military force stands alongside many competing actions as but one policy option among many, whether economic sanctions, political incentives, alliance building, political pressure, or shame in the court of public opinion.

Senate Republican leader Dean Skelos would not commit to bringing the speed limit bill to a floor vote, noting archly that he has little political incentive to New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio any favors.

Exactly what the platform committee meant by «phenomenon» and «political incentives» is not explained, and members of the committee's staff could not be reached for comment as ScienceInsider went to press.

The political incentives — for a variety of reasons — to create high - quality assessments aren't particularly strong, so having philanthropists invest dollars to create these assessments and continue to push innovation is critical.

The political incentives to create high - quality assessments aren't particularly strong, so having philanthropists invest dollars to create these assessments and continue to push innovation is critical.

That doesn't mean the financial problems with teacher pension plans are insignificant — and the political incentives to raise benefits during boom times skews things here — but it is useful to view them in an historical context (I might argue some of the non-financial problems are actually more important).

The political incentives are all for delivering earmarks and projects to constituents.

If the promises made by geoengineering erode the political incentives requiring polluters to cut their emissions, will we see fossil fuel corporations begin lobbying to get political endorsement for climate modification?

To maintain the physical - social separation the report must play down or dismiss the problem of «moral hazard», that is, the likelihood that a substantial research program, let alone any deployment, would almost certainly reduce the political incentives to rein in carbon emissions.