Sentences with phrase «public policy debates by»

SIIA aggressively promotes and protects the interests of its member companies in legal and public policy debates by working with state, federal and international policymakers and participating in landmark legal decisions.

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Such a debate would be further enriched by a comprehensive study of how countries such as Australia, with its recent policies and public / media perceptions, has fared after instituting new regulations to curb foreign investment.

By correlating diverse boards with greater board effectiveness and the promotion of long - term value creation, the association's recommendation transcends public policy debates and moral imperatives.

In the final days, the public policy debates became more lively and diverse as participants began to react to the directions being pushed by WCC staff.

Today, these values shape the public debate and policy of most industrialized countries and have been imposed on many others through the structural adjustment required by the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.

Third, the publicity afforded to the most recent debate could be viewed as part of a wider effort by the Chinese to indirectly warn North Korea and demonstrate to the outside world, especially the US, that China is open to a more public discussion of policy.

By shedding light on public preferences, the research will contribute to an important debate about the effects of corruption and insecurity on public legitimacy and will provide policy - makers with rigorous evidence.

Building on workshops co-hosted by Oxford's Department of Politics and International Relations, the New Economics Foundation and Positive Money, the blog series aims to inform policy and public debate on the potential of public assets.

Kerem Öktem deconstructed attitudes to the Arab world in Turkey, by presenting a critical reading of Turkish public debates and the potentially counterrevolutionary policies of the ruling party in Turkey on the Egyptian revolution.

A recent research project by Kayte Lawton and myself for the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), funded by the Nuffield Foundation, attempts to inform debate by providing a critical assessment of the options for reforming wealth taxes in the UK.

Incumbent mayor Kathy Sheehan, and challengers Carolyn McLaughlin and Frank Commisso, Jr., discussed the measure during a Wednesday debate hosted by the Rockefeller College of Public Affairs & Policy.

Congestion pricing has died multiple deaths in public policy debates, most recently 10 years ago when the Assembly declined to take a vote on a plan backed by then - Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

The topic for this week's debate, moderated by host Grant Reeher, concerns public policy questions that bear on the city's future.

Notes to Editors The report, «How alcohol industry organisations mislead the public about alcohol and cancer», by Mark Petticrew, Nason Maani Hessari, Cécile Knai and Elisabete Weiderpass, will be published online in Drug and Alcohol Review at 22:00 6 September 2017 The Institute of Alcohol Studies is an independent institute bringing together evidence, policy and practice from home and abroad to promote and informed debate on alcohol's impact on society.

focused public attention on important potential impacts of science and technology on society by their responsible participation in public policy debates; or

SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA — 87 % of scientists believe they and their peers should take an active role in public policy debates, according to a Pew Research Center report presented by Lee Rainie of the Pew Internet and American Life Project during «Scientists Engaging with Reporters, the Public, and Social Media: Survey Findings,» a session yesterday at the annual meeting of AAAS, which publishes Science Capublic policy debates, according to a Pew Research Center report presented by Lee Rainie of the Pew Internet and American Life Project during «Scientists Engaging with Reporters, the Public, and Social Media: Survey Findings,» a session yesterday at the annual meeting of AAAS, which publishes Science CaPublic, and Social Media: Survey Findings,» a session yesterday at the annual meeting of AAAS, which publishes Science Careers.

Canberra About Blog The Policy Space, hosted by @UCIGPA is a politically neutral blogging platform for debating major public policy issues in Australia and ovePolicy Space, hosted by @UCIGPA is a politically neutral blogging platform for debating major public policy issues in Australia and ovepolicy issues in Australia and overseas.

The discussion will be contextualized by the global scenary of solid waste management and the implementation of the new Sustainable Development Goals, focusing the question of solid waste and social development as priorities on the debate of cooperation for development and public policies for the next 15 years.

At the same time, more senior scholars, like Gene Glass, Hank Levin, David Berliner, and Kenneth Zeichner may have been given too much credit by the old ranking system for books and articles that were influential in the past but do not give them as much of a public presence in recent policy debates.

The emerging public - policy issues surrounding day care for children and infants were debated by child - care experts and educators at several recent meetings designed to help set next steps for policymakers.

They will be successful by altering education policy debates, forging powerful public - private partnerships, and restoring public confidence in our schools.»

It is hardly surprising that the apparent exhaustion of the education - reform consensus has been accompanied by exhaustion on the part of the American public (whose children have been caught in the middle of the debate), not to mention many policy elites and politicians.

And there is the uncomfortable interaction between faith and public policy, which has led to contentious public debates that have driven decades of controversial and often contradictory decisions by state legislatures, the courts, Congress, and the White House.

Spin Cycle: How Research Gets Used in Policy Debates: The Case of Charter Schools (Russell Sage Foundation, 2008) focuses on the controversy surrounding the charter school study by the American Federation of Teachers and its implications for understanding politics, politicization, and the use of research to inform public discourse; it won the American Educational Research Association's Outstanding Book Award in 2010.

Changing the Debate on Charter Schools Education Week op - ed by Meghan Carton, a master's candidate at Georgetown University's Public Policy Institute

Such philanthropy has sparked a debate about whether American democracy is well - served by wealthy people who pour part of their fortunes into their pet projects — regardless of whether they are grounded in research — to such a degree that public policy and funding follow.

The Foundation's mission is to promote and defend liberty, personal responsibility, and free enterprise in Texas and the nation by educating and affecting policymakers and the Texas public policy debate with academically sound research and outreach.

Moreover, it offers strong evidence for this alternative direction to the policy debate on public school reform by analyzing the role of union - management relations in educational quality.

Michael Elion's «Perceiving Freedom», a set of oversized Ray - Ban sunglasses sponsored by Ray - Ban and supposedly about Mandela and his incarceration on Robben Island, set off a debate about the lack of a public arts policy in the South Africa's «Mother City».

The op - ed favorably cited by Mike Mann says this explcitly, «That means we need to clearly say there is no scientific debate about climate change — and instead shift the conversation to next steps... Those of us who write opinion need to press for public - policy action, steps that move us as a planet forward.

By this Charter, the Governing Council is directed to obtain and to deploy whatever resources may be necessary for the energetic furtherance of the ambitions and activities of the Foundation, which shall conduct research, publish papers, educate students and the public and take every measure that may be necessary to restore the primacy and use of reason in science and public policy worldwide, especially insofar as they may bear upon the rights of the people fairly and fully to be informed, openly and freely to debate, and secretly by ballot to decide who shall govern them, what laws they shall live by and what imposts they shall endure.&raquBy this Charter, the Governing Council is directed to obtain and to deploy whatever resources may be necessary for the energetic furtherance of the ambitions and activities of the Foundation, which shall conduct research, publish papers, educate students and the public and take every measure that may be necessary to restore the primacy and use of reason in science and public policy worldwide, especially insofar as they may bear upon the rights of the people fairly and fully to be informed, openly and freely to debate, and secretly by ballot to decide who shall govern them, what laws they shall live by and what imposts they shall endure.&raquby ballot to decide who shall govern them, what laws they shall live by and what imposts they shall endure.&raquby and what imposts they shall endure.»

And by all means let's ask Walmart to be a louder voice in public policy debates about energy and climate change.

But while science advances through that process of argument, public attitudes on climate change have largely been dulled by the debate, particularly after more than a decade of industry - backed efforts to point to the implicit complexity in the science as a reason for inaction on related energy and climate policies.

Right now, the public policy debate is dominated by the people who oppose divesting the energy economy from fossil fuels.

This is journalism for the public policy debate about climate change, not written by a subject matter expert.

Although Lawson and his Global Warming Policy Foundation have been discredited and attacked by numerous scientists and senior politicians, his thinktank continues to receive significant coverage, wrongfully distorting the public and policy debate over climate cPolicy Foundation have been discredited and attacked by numerous scientists and senior politicians, his thinktank continues to receive significant coverage, wrongfully distorting the public and policy debate over climate cpolicy debate over climate change.

Public Comment Policy This policy asserts Macquarie University's commitment to the principles of academic freedom, and its expectation that staff will challenge society's ideas and contribute to open debate by commenting publicly within areas of their professional expePolicy This policy asserts Macquarie University's commitment to the principles of academic freedom, and its expectation that staff will challenge society's ideas and contribute to open debate by commenting publicly within areas of their professional expepolicy asserts Macquarie University's commitment to the principles of academic freedom, and its expectation that staff will challenge society's ideas and contribute to open debate by commenting publicly within areas of their professional expertise.

The Kuwaiti government paid for a release of Balling's «A Heated Debate» in the Middle East, a project originally funded by the Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy.

And ExxonMobil bankrolls the Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy, which published The Heated Debate, a book by greenhouse skeptic Dr. Robert Balling.

The Foundation's mission is to promote and defend liberty, personal responsibility, and free enterprise in Texas and the nation by educating and affecting policymakers and the Texas public policy debate with academically sound research and outreach.

This introductory primer informs scientists, policy makers and the general public by clarifying the conflicting claims of the debate.

The Team, led by Phil Jones and Michael Mann, in attempts to shape the debate and influence public policy:

Obviously I can't tell for sure, but I think that the voting public in the US wants a much longer and more thorough public debate before the US devotes resources to the policies advocated by Gavin Schmidt, Alan Leshner, and James Hansen.

The debate among experts in the climate sciences — and those interested in the public policy implications of climate change — concerns the magnitude and speed of future warming, which requires understanding of the dynamics of the many factors involved — which are investigated by analysis of past and current climate data.

The continuing debate on the role of noneconomic factors in competition law analysis has been triggered by the Commission's move towards a more «economic» approach to competition law together with Giorgio Monti's seminal article «Article 81 EC and Public Policy» in the Common Market Law Review.

He wrote that «the speculative ills targeted by the social networking policy are not sufficient to justify such sweeping restrictions on officers» freedom to debate matters of public concern.»

Major changes in immigration policy have historically been achieved through legislation and regulations, which would normally involve public consultation, task forces, discussion papers, committee hearings, and parliamentary debate, as well as consultation of regulations before approval by Cabinet.

WASHINGTON, D.C., February 7, 2017 — Noting «recent media coverage influenced by trial lawyers» willful efforts to mislead the public about an important policy debate,» the American Tort Reform Association -LSB-...]

The CJRB does not advocate positions on specific issues, we simply say that debates about public policy including social issues should be resolved democratically by the parliamentary process.

She has a monograph on joined - up government and public administration with Melbourne University Press due for release in 2015 — «Grassroots to Government: Joining - up in Australia», and is Chief Editor and contributor to the upcoming book «Designing and Implementing Public Policy: Cross-sectoral Debates», to be published by Routledge inpublic administration with Melbourne University Press due for release in 2015 — «Grassroots to Government: Joining - up in Australia», and is Chief Editor and contributor to the upcoming book «Designing and Implementing Public Policy: Cross-sectoral Debates», to be published by Routledge inPublic Policy: Cross-sectoral Debates», to be published by Routledge in 2015.