Sentences with phrase «political policy questions»

He didn't ask me any political policy questions fortunately since I had no positions on anything.

In any case, I know of no other field where like climate science the leading researchers in the field have taken a strong position on a political policy question that relies on their science turning out a particular way.

Not exact matches

The question that should be on the mind of every political leader and policy - maker in the country is: how do we prepare for this evolutionary change to the global economy?

«Where it stops along that continuum is in part a policy question, in part a legal question, and in part a political question.

«Convergence and harmonization means... Canada bending its regulations or simply adopting U.S. federal regulations, and I ask the question: at what point does the narrowing of policy room to manoeuvre fundamentally compromise democratic accountability in our political system?»

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.

THE PEOPLE»S RESPONSIBILITY By grounding foreign policy analysis in wider considerations of political philosophy in his «The Morality of Self - Interest» (June / July 2010), David P. Goldman has performed a valuable service, but his treatment of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars raises further questions.

On every question about economic or political decisions, from general influence on public policy to specific influence on the minimum wage, between 75 percent and 85 percent of African - Americans said that religion should be involved.

He also calls into question our political consensus, which is that getting the right policies (always within the neo-liberal consensus) is what makes or breaks a candidate.

«This time around, I expect to ask President Trump a number of policy questions but also about how he is processing his amazing achievement: A man with no political experience winning the most powerful office in the world.»

This is not only an empirical question about what policies a political system full of actors able to slow or veto policies favoured by democratic majorities is likely to favour, or whether such a system will in fact make slavery less likely or more.

The key shift was in the 1970s, when the Court veered away from strict interpretation of the original meaning of the Convention and adopted instead a policy of interpreting the Convention creatively and, through case law, extending its scope way beyond traditional ideas of political freedom into questions of economic and social policy.

With respect to the first question, we argue that on top of the programmatic content of political texts, political parties use emotional appeals to convince that their policies are superior.

These questions barely scratch the surface, because the complex interplay between general advancements of computational social science and hovering satellite topics like political bots will have an enormous impact on research and using data for policy.

The dialogue that ensued engaged the authors with a series of questions surrounding the book's central thesis: despite the real progress in racial equality achieved by the 1960s civil rights legislation, the United States political institution has been caught in between two modes of conceptualizing, and enacting policy, about race — both of which have failed to close the tremendous gap in racial disparities in social and economic welfare that are a legacy of American history.

Understanding these internal political dynamics also raises interesting questions about which Western foreign policy strategies are likely to be most effective in encouraging economic reform within China.

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In political debates, Ventura often admitted that he had not formed an opinion on certain policy questions.

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But, and this will be the focus of this article, it is also possible for a state to adopt policies that undermine the capacity and, even, disposition of other states to engage in republican self - government without exercising political or economic domination over the states in question.

This debate took in not just political questions but issues of economic organization and public policy more broadly.

Cuomo's full - dress speech made the policy case, but the political offensive surged during the following days: The governor and his top lieutenants conducted a series of meetings and interviews that raised doubts about De Blasio's logistical competence to add thousands of pre-k seats by September and that questioned the depth of the mayor's electoral «mandate.»

The question was whether it is the only legitimate alliance or outcome The central argument is that «coming first» does not rule out forming another alliance based on political principle and policy alignment.

«James Sheppard may be supported by one of the two Democratic political machines in our area, but there are serious unanswered questions about his past support of discriminatory policing policies, among other things.

He added that undocumented workers can't be legally employed in the state to begin with and he questioned the political push by Democratic lawmakers for the policy.

Rather it was a direct answer to OPs question and the simple fact that the MAJOR political parties AS AN INSTIUTION are incentivized by donors and as a result those donors are able to influence policy.

I'm voting to close this question as off - topic because it is about legal advise, not about governments, policies and political processes.

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ALBANY — Kathy Hochul, the state lieutenant governor who has logged tens of thousands of miles promoting Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and his policies, again is facing questions about her political future after the governor recently promoted her as an ideal candidate to run for Congress.

When political parties and public policy groups with such divergent views unite in a common cause it clearly attests to the fact that ballot access reform is not a partisan or special - interest group issue, but a question of fundamental freedom that transcends political and ideological differences.

80 % of the time I ask a member of the Cameron operation a policy question I get a political answer.

«We looked into the question of whether — and if so, to what extent — the public's attitude to climate policy and the risks of climate change can be influenced,» explains Thomas Bernauer, professor of political science at ETH Zurich.

The «political atmospherics» of the meeting might polish Trump's optics, but Bledsoe is skeptical about its influence on public policy, which is being overseen in some cases by transition officials who question the scientific findings on global warming.

As to whether our efforts will influence policy, that is a philosophical and political science question, and this is a web site for scientific information.]

When people log in, they are offerred a three - part political assessment, including questions on the economy, foreign policy and social views.

And partly it's because some questions can't be answered with an «n» of 50, or in a political system in which it's impossible to randomly assign policies to states.

Legal challenges to a state's legislative and executive policies on public education necessarily implicate separation - of - powers concerns about the courts» abilities to answer political questions and resolve policy debates.

Because so much of her nomination hearing focused on questions of her family's political contributions or particular facets of K - 12 policy, we still don't know where she stands on key higher education issues, like Pell Grants, student loans, or for - profit colleges.

The poll produced nuanced results, with some respondents given questions that noted Pres. Donald Trump's education policies while others given questions stripped of political context.

But that begs the political and policy questions that dog such programs and those who want more of them.)

On Oct. 18, readers questioned Christopher T. Cross, a former assistant U.S. secretary of education for research and improvement under President George H.W. Bush and the author of Political Education: National Policy Comes of Age, on the changing role of the U.S. Department of Education.

That question led to a list of 16 young men and women who are launching and leading organizations that will lead in the transformation of public education over the next decade, as well as people who are doing important research, legal, political, and policy work that will shape the future of education reform.

One important aspect of such inquiry is the question of the relationship between public and political understandings of educational purposes and values, on the one hand, and educational policies and practices on the other.

In a ruling two years ago, the state's highest court also said education policy was a political question off limits to judicial intervention.

After providing the political and cultural contexts for the rise of the testing accountability movement in the 1960s that culminated almost forty years later in No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top, this book then moves on to provide a policy history and social policy analysis of value - added testing in Tennessee that is framed around questions of power relations, winners, and losers.

On September 17, 1656, Oliver Cromwell, the Lord Protector, addressed the English Parliament to lay out his foreign policy, and he began by asking the most basic political questions: Who are our enemies, and why do they hate us?

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As to whether our efforts will influence policy, that is a philosophical and political science question, and this is a web site for scientific information.]

[Response II: I just thought of something else: if a scientist criticising a politician is political, then the sci - pol guy who criticises the scientist (who he assumes to be acting politically), must also be acting politically, and by the same logic, must support the original policy aims of the politician in question.

And as the post points out, some are pure policy questions where the engineering has already been done (urban infrastructure, clean water) but the funding and political support are simply lacking.