Sentences with phrase «public policy institution»

The RAND report doesn't surprise another independent research and public policy institution.

Automatic voter registration, approved in eight states and D.C., may also improve turnout via «two transformative, yet simple, changes,» the Brennan Center for Justice, a nonpartisan public policy institution based at New York University Law School, has written.

, approved in eight states and D.C., may also improve turnout via «two transformative, yet simple, changes,» the Brennan Center for Justice, a nonpartisan public policy institution based at New York University Law School, has written.

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As a political philosopher who studies how abstract moral notions such as justice apply to political institutions, I am more concerned with the fact that under - counting the undocumented might introduce bias into our public policy.

Wolfers, professor of economics and public policy at the University of Michigan and several other institutions, soon shot back saying the stock market performed better under Obama than under Trump at the same point in their presidency.

This circle would be easier to square if policy elites had performed better over the last 15 years, and could more credibly say that they had created the public institutions necessary for people to improve their own lives.

The Fulbright Public Policy Fellowship provides opportunities for early and mid-career professionals to serve in professional placements in a foreign government ministry or institution.

Commentary is produced by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a private, tax - exempt institution focusing on international public policy issues.

He analyzes institutional corruption in the pharmaceutical sector, regulatory capture of public institutions, innovation policies and intellectual property in the knowledge - based economy, as well as comparative regimes of health insurance and pharmacare.

This scenario would increase the efficiency of wholesale payment systems, and has few drawbacks for the public at large or for policy makers, although banks could be hit due to higher competition with non-bank payment institutions.

Fisman and his colleagues rightly assume that these students represent the new liberal meritocrats, the people likely to occupy important positions in government, exercise influence over public policy, and set the tone for establishment institutions.

Everything traditionally «national» is to be lampooned and discredited, and it should be public policy to destroy or transform traditional institutions, beginning with the family.

The language of that essay has now become the common parlance of public policy debates -» mediating institutions,» «empowerment,» «new paradigm,» and so forth.

The danger of the Bob Jones decision is that if the university can be forced to comply with public policy in order to retain its tax status, then all other nonprofit institutions — with churches listed first in the tax regulation — can be forced to do likewise.

Current enthusiasm for civil society is usually traced to the arguments of Vaclav Havel, the Czech president, and others who posited the claims of civil society against the totalitarian claims of communism, and, earlier than that, to the To Empower People manifesto authored by Peter Berger and myself in order to lift up the crucial role of non-governmental «mediating institutions» in public policy.

Red, White, Blue, and Catholicby stephen p. whiteliguori, 101 pages, $ 12.99 In this primer on Catholic citizenship, the Ethics and Public Policy Center's Stephen White reminds us that faithful citizenship is about love — «love for the people and institutions to which we are bound by birth and by....

A few paragraphs later Cardinal Dulles laments that «the greatest threat to religion, in my estimation, is the kind of secularism that would exclude religion from the public forum and that treats churches as purely private institutions that have no rightful influence on legislation, public policy, and other dimensions of public life.»

As applied to modern democracy, the idea is that the moral legitimacy of a law or public policy can not be established merely by showing that it was put into place through the workings of democratic institutions.

Two days after the Obergefell decision, New York Times columnist Mark Oppenheimer suggested that it is now time to rethink the idea of tax - exempt status for religious institutions: «Rather than try to rescue tax - exempt status for organizations that dissent from settled public policy on matters of....

By forcing public positions into the center, and by forcing compromise in the formulation of policy, the institutions of American politics have diffused and defused the passion necessary for war.

However, very few policies in Christian institutions or in public life are actually decided on these bases, in part because class analysis simply does not and can not take account of the cultural factors that shape much of what is decided.

Two days after the Obergefell decision, New York Times columnist Mark Oppenheimer suggested that it is now time to rethink the idea of tax - exempt status for religious institutions: «Rather than try to rescue tax - exempt status for organizations that dissent from settled public policy on matters of race or sexuality, we need to take a more radical step.

It argued for the importance for public policy of what we called mediating structures — institutions standing between the individual and the large institutions of society.

If only the church's conventional image is changed from a self - centered, indifferent institution to that of a deeply concerned observer of public affairs — by simply being in the places where policy is being hammered out — this alone is warrant for deployment in the structures of the community,

The policy also begins a process of public comment for religious institutions that fund their own insurance plans.

Though Whitehead sees the church as one of several civil institutions that could strengthen families, she is not much interested in the church's potential role as a source of ethical reflection and public - policy recommendations.

It is still possible, at the moment, to play good defense here, both in terms of public policy and in legally defending Church - based institutions from the assault of the dictatorship of relativism.

Richard L. Rubenstein is Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor of Religion at Florida State University and President of the Washington Institute for Values in Public Policy, a Washington - based research institution.

Work together towards systemic change by educating public officials, institutions and the community about policies and practices that promote, protect and support breastfeeding.

According to the Wikipedia: Advocacy by an individual or by an advocacy group normally aim to influence public - policy and resource allocation decisions within political, economic, and social systems and institutions; it may be motivated from moral, ethical or faith principles or simply to protect an asset of interest.

The manual begins with an uncontentious definition: «Lobbying is the process of seeking to influence government and its institutions by informing the public policy agenda» or, rather more succinctly, «the art of political persuasion».

The free SHS policy implies the absorption of all approved fees currently charged to students in public SHS and TVET Institutions.

Dr. Issahaku is an International Development Economist with several years of experience in economic policy management and development, having worked with reputable international and local institutions including the World Bank as a Senior Public Sector Specialist; the African Development Bank as a Principal Governance Expert; the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa as a Development Management Officer; the Canadian International Development Agency as a Socio - Economic Advisor and Project Coordinator; and the National Development Planning Commission, Ghana as a Senior Planning Analyst.

Our social institutions, public policy and the way we think about our society and national identity has to catch up with this massive cultural shift.»

Staten Island Assemblyman Ronald Castorina and Women's March organizer Linda Sarsour collided on social media this week over the latter's upcoming commencement address at the City University of New York's Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy — a speech that the Republican lawmaker argued the public institution should cancel, given Sarsour's political and religious Public Health and Health Policy — a speech that the Republican lawmaker argued the public institution should cancel, given Sarsour's political and religious public institution should cancel, given Sarsour's political and religious views.

Giving further explanations on the party's request on Eyewitness News, Policy Adviser for PPP, Kofi Asamoah Siaw said: «over the years, the Electoral Commission and some other institutions have conducted public service in a manner in which they please and they have hurt this nation's progress and development, so we have taken issues with the Electoral Commission's function of being a regulator of the activities of political parties.»

Drawn to the meeting's focus on science policy, attendees are learning how to bolster the scientific integrity policies of their respective institutions, to clearly outline the real life impacts of their research and to challenge public policy shifts that blunt scientific communication and hamper international talent exchanges.

Enhancing the Postdoctoral Experience for Scientists and Engineers: A Guide for Postdoctoral Scholars, Advisers, Institutions, Funding Organizations, and Disciplinary Societies (Committee on Science, Engineering and Public Policy, National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine, National Academy Press, Washington D.C., 2000).

Scientists can consult with their institutions» public affairs and government relations offices and join groups like Engaging Scientists and Engineers in Policy that seek to empower scientists to involve themselves in the policymaking process, panelists said.

But even before all the data were in, the researchers began to suspect that their assumptions were wrong, says lead study author Kathryn Whetten, director of the Center for Public Health Policy at the Duke Global Health Institute in Durham, N.C. «The stereotype that many of us in the U.S. and Europe have of an institution is not what is being set up in less wealthy nations,» Whetten says.

And should the Public Health Service devise a conflicts policy for institutions, not just individual investigators?

Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy (COSEPUP) in a recommendation to institutions, articulated in its 2000 publication Enhancing the Postdoctoral Experience for Scientists and Engineers.

The report recommends that the governing authorities, including research institutions, funders, and regulators, develop and maintain clear policies and mechanisms for how public engagement will factor into research, ecological risk assessments, and public policy decisions about gene drives.

APLU is a research, policy, and advocacy organization representing 219 public research universities, land - grant institutions, state university systems, and related organizations.

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The main activities implemented in the program by the students, under the coordination of their teacher, are: (1) analysis of the problems of the local Roma community; (2) selection of a problem for in - depth study by the class, a problem that can be solved through local public policies; (3) collecting information about the problem from various sources, including members of the Roma community, public institutions, NGOs, specialists, and analysis of possible solutions; (4) drafting a public policy that could solve the problem; (4) developing an action plan to influence public authorities to adopt the public policy proposed by the students; (5) organizing a showcase at local level in which students present their projects; (6) reflecting on the learning experience.

Broad swaths of Americans feel disconnected from public institutions and are convinced that policy makers don't understand or much care about them.

In other cases, it has involved turning elements of civil society and the private economy into arms of government policy — by requiring compliance with policy goals that are foreign to many civil - society institutions or consolidating key sectors of the economy and offering protection to large corporations willing to act as public utilities or to advance policymakers» priorities.

Coming in the wake of the recent Supreme Court decision to uphold race - conscious admissions policies at the University of Texas at Austin — a case in which Garces authored briefs on behalf of 444 social science researchers — the Schuette case will rule on changes to the admission system at public postsecondary institutions in the state of Michigan.

The standard of political and moral performance required to consider should be the following: 1) increase of solidarity among the inhabitants of the country; 2) increase in the practice of social justice by organs of government and civil society; 3) increase in the distribution of income and wealth among the population; 4) increase of measures to preserve and care for nature; 5) increase in policies for integral development of education in accordance with the highest human values; 6) advances in the realization of the collective will of the citizens; 7) improvement of political institutions; 8) success in combating corruption measured by its reduction; 9) increase in the exercise of citizenship with the effective participation of citizens in government decisions and fight for expansion of their rights; and 10) increase of contribution of public and private organizations to the political, economic, social and environmental development of the country.