Sentences with phrase «political research group»

Facebook is currently dealing with intense controversy after The Observer and The New York Times revealed FB shared the information of 50 million users with the political research group Cambridge Analytica, which worked for Donald Trump's presidential campaign.

In a statement issued to openDemocracy, a spokesperson said: «This is a party political research group which provides briefings to Conservative MPs relating to the UK's relationship with the European Union.

Mark Zuckerberg has yet to speak publicly about last week's news that a researcher turned 270,000 responses to a Facebook quiz into profiles of 50 million Facebook users, which he turned over to Trump - affiliated political research group Cambridge Analytica.

More than 500 contributors who gave more than $ 200 to Republican candidates earlier in this election cycle, are now giving money to Clinton rather than the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, according to political research group, Crowdpac.

Not exact matches

«It is also a tacit admission that her government needs to improve the atmosphere around the Article 50 negotiations,» Mujtaba Rahman, Europe director of political risk consultancy Eurasia Group, said in a research note.

Chris Krueger, an analyst at Cowen Washington Research Group, said the sudden speed of the tax bill also had a political necessity: Republicans need a win.

Emma Boorboor, election reform campaign director at U.S. Public Interest Research Group (U.S. PIRG), told me that in October 2015, she sent a letter to Vanguard CEO Bill McNabb and two other Vanguard employees outlining her concerns with the mutual fund company's voting policies with respect to corporate political disclosure.

*** Eurasia Group is the world's leading global political risk research and consulting firm.

The Chinese missile project «was one of the things that really made people say «Turkey is shifting, wow,»» said Mehmet Soylemez, an Asian studies specialist at the Institute for Social and Political Researches, an independent research group in Ankara.

On the other hand, «private» opinion research conducted for large corporations, special interest groups and political parties is booming.

Alas, with all the special interest groups preventing real science, I suspect we will NEVER have real research, and we shall permit political correctness to keep us in the dark.

Certainly some evangelical groups — the Signpost Research Centre, for example — have engaged the political debate in South Africa in such a way as advertently or inadvertently to lend support to the morally odious system of apartheid.

The IPCC is not, in fact, an objective, neutral body that evaluates pure research; it is a dominantly political body controlled by a tight group of true believers — an advocacy organization that only pretends to scientific objectivity.

Despite that research, however, many religious and political groups continue to selectively quote scientific literature to buttress arguments that homosexuality is a pathology.

Those who do not want to curtail their research work can find opportunities as citizens, in church and civic groups, and in political parties.

Champions 12.3 — which includes CEOs of major food companies Nestlé, Tesco and Unilever, along with government ministers, executives of research and intergovernmental institutions, foundations, farm organizations, and civil society groups — will work to create political, business and social momentum to reduce food loss and waste around the world.

Ferran Requejo is Professor of Political Science at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, where he is director of the Research Group on Political Theory and has directed the Master programmes on Current Democracies: Nationalism, Federalism and Multiculturality andPolitical Philosophy.

The key themes and questions underpinning the narrative of this nascent «Northern regionalism» were unpacked and discussed at length in a symposium held at the University of Huddersfield (co-sponsored by the Centre for Research in the Social Sciences and the Political Studies Association and organised by the Britishness Specialist Group) on the 13th of February: «Decentralisation and the Future of Yorkshire».

This was all called to our attention this morning via Bill Mahoney of the New York Public Interest Research Group, who is an astute student of state political history.

Other experience includes a year on the US 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review, a year at the Kabul - based Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, two years in Beirut, Lebanon, shorter project management roles in Jordan, Pakistan, and Iraq, political risk forecasting in a London - based firm, and stints with the International Crisis Group and the US Embassy in Kuwait.

Good - government champion Blair Horner, executive director of the New York Public Interest Research Group, says the trial's consequence on Cuomo's political futures depends on what Cuomo does going forward.

It originally appeared on the Political Economy Blog of Sheffield University's Political Economy Research Group.

Blair Horner, legislative director of the New York Public Interest Research Group, said Cuomo made a «naked political deal» with hospitals on malpractice to get their support for a painful 2 - percent cut in Medicaid reimbursement.

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Blair Horner, the executive director of the New York Public Interest Research Group, said Terry's array of government jobs «raises the question of whether or not the personnel decisions were awarded based on the merits, or on political connections.»

An 11 - page policy paper released by the New York Public Interest Research Group on Friday takes issue with the state Board of Elections to suspend the aggregate political contribution limits in the wake of the Supreme Court decision, McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission.

The New York Public Interest Research Group blames the state's political scandals on lax limits, poor enforcement and loopholes.

«Independent expenditures tend not to be particularly as big in New York as say the LLC Loophole or housekeeping accounts,» said Blair Horner of The New York Public Interest Research Group, referring to political party accounts not subject to the same campaign finance limits as candidate campaigns.

Blair Horner, with the New York Public Interest Research Group, called the verdict a «political earthquake.»

«When they know they're not running, they should wrap them up within months of ending their political careers,» said Blair Horner of the New York Public Interest Research Group, a government watchdog.

Such research groups are perfectly normal practice amongst political parties and we do not consider this a ministerial code issue.

A research conducted by his outfit, he said, revealed that most of the electoral crimes committed were by these vigilante groups which are sometimes linked to one political party or the other.http: / / ghanapoliticsonline.com

The New York Public Interest Research Group on Monday lodged a complaint with ethics regulators over what it believes is an increase in lobby by the state's political parties.

«Hopefully this will be the tipping point at which New York's political leadership will gets its heads out of the sand,» said Blair Horner, of the New York Public Research Group.

«[Wright] has to be very careful in the ethically charged political environment in Albany,» said Blair Horner, executive director of the New York Public Interest Research Group.

The Vermont Public Interest Research Group is asking legislators and the Secretary of State to make key changes in Vermont's campaign finance law pertaining to the super-spending political action committees.

Regardless of appointments being rushed or delayed, Blair Horner, executive director of the New York Public Interest Research Group, said that «political games» should be kept out of confirmations.

«It's all about rewarding political power and favored groups, and then you add on top of it the controversies and scandals,» said Blair Horner, legislative director of the New York Public Interest Research Group.

His biggest donor was the Rent Stabilization Association's PAC and Neighborhood Preservation Political Action Fund, which shelled out $ 82,000 for him, according to the New York Public Interest Research Group.

«There aren't any of the political heavy weights that you find in this battle on the pro side, at least that I know of so far,» said Blair Horner of the New York Public Interest Research Group, which is remaining neutral in the con - con debate

«A political earthquake has hit Albany,» said Blair Horner of the New York Public Interest Research Group, which has pushed for a special session this year to enact tougher ethics laws.

Leaders of the New York Public Interest Research Group filed a five - page complaint with the Joint Commission on Public Ethics, saying political parties that spend money on anything from ads to memoranda pushing legislators to vote a certain way must file bi-monthly disclosure reports with JCOPE.

The New York Public Interest Research Group in November sent a letter asking for a formal opinion from the Joint Commission on Public Ethics as to whether political parties should be considered lobbyists under state law.

Blair Horner, executive director of the New York Public Interest Research Group, sees the law as a «classic political misdirection ploy.»»

Blair Horner, with the New York Public Interest Research Group, calls the verdict a «political earthquake.»

However, political sources in Northern Ireland with knowledge of the Commission's affairs have confirmed to openDemocracy that the substantial sanction was connected to the Constitutional Research Council (CRC)-- the secretive group that channelled the # 435,000 to the DUP in Belfast.

Lincoln Strategy Group has a firm handle on the process of amassing strategic research that help political professionals to make informed decisions and strategic political moves on the issues that matter.

«The political muscle memory will be that each legislative house will pass their own proposals, they magically won't match and yet lawmakers will feel like they have enough political cover to face voters in November,» the New York Public Interest Research Group's Blair Horner said last week, before the revelations about Percoco.

Blair Horner, executive director of the New York Public Interest Research Group, said any funding should be distributed based on district population — not political juice.

«A political earthquake has hit Albany,» said Blair Horner of The New York Public Interest Research Group.