Sentences with phrase «public policy opinions»

I don't want to speak for their particular public policy opinions so I will give my preference for public policy.

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While it's still unclear if Session's views will translate into changes in policy or enforcement, this attitude shift at the federal level doesn't align with public opinion on the issue.

Trump said leaders from China and Singapore had previously told him that both countries eliminated drugs by executing dealers, though he noted that he wasn't certain about American public opinion on the policy.

The beleaguered top honchos of the U.S. tech giants undoubtedly will be scrambling to figure out how to minimize the ongoing public - policy and public - opinion backlash against them.

About 21 percent of gun owners have contacted a public official to express an opinion on gun policy, compared to just 12 percent of non-gun owners.

The European Crowdfunding Network is a professional network promoting adequate transparency, (self) regulation and governance while offering a combined voice in policy discussion and public opinion building.

Additionally, I believe they also want to control public opinion by employing key individuals, by their associates and moderation policies on various platforms, and with an army of trolls.

ARI is a national, not - for - profit, non-partisan public opinion research foundation established to advance education by commissioning, conducting and disseminating to the public accessible and impartial statistical data, research and policy analysis on economics, political science, philanthropy, public administration, domestic and international affairs and other socio - economic issues of importance to Canada and its world.

The organization's mission is to strengthen the wealth - creating capacity of its members and promote economic development; to create innovative and effective change in the business culture; to build strategic alliances, coalitions and affiliations; and to transform public policy and influence opinion makers.

We conduct extensive opinion and economic research and work with our rapidly growing network of 40,000 small business owners across the country to ensure their voices are an integral part of the public policy debate.

Policy - makers, scholars, and other commentators have suggested a number of factors that may affect public opinion on expanded trade with China.

North Carolina's legislative body passed the Public Facilities Privacy and Security Act, which mandates a statewide policy banning individuals from using public bathrooms that do not correspond to their biological sex, as opposed to their opinion of theiPublic Facilities Privacy and Security Act, which mandates a statewide policy banning individuals from using public bathrooms that do not correspond to their biological sex, as opposed to their opinion of theipublic bathrooms that do not correspond to their biological sex, as opposed to their opinion of their sex.

Gallup shows that public opinion has not shifted with recent policy changes on same - sex relations or doctor - assisted suicide.

Policy - makers are forced to work on either side of the fifty - yard line of public opinion.

And as an elected political leader his task is not to render a legal opinion but to bring his best judgment, including moral judgment, to bear on public policy.

That means the candidates should have principles but also policy agendas that are plausible given the state of public opinion in those constituencies.

Economistic thinkers typically support this opposition, but as long as the issues are fought out within the nation, public opinion can support policies that involve some short - term economic losses for the sake of long - term environmental gains.

These convictions posit the necessity — before a church lobby can exist, before the mobilization of opinion behind specific policies can be achieved — to create a process for broadening and deepening public debate on urgent questions.

A Christian social policy in favour of freedom can not simply consist in advocating freedom and tolerance while trying to abolish all compulsory ordering of social life and public opinion because these are felt to threaten freedom.

On this view, policy should be much more closely tied to public opinion, or to direct popular decision, than to the judgment of legislative or bureaucratic elites.

After the story broke and public opinion wondered why these criminals were treated so leniently, the bishops then made the equal and opposite mistake: having been burned by being too merciful, they turned around and zealously applied the strictest justice, in the form of «zero tolerance» policies.

Unfortunately, as the magazine discovered through the next decade, that silent opinion, although present, was slow to make itself heard in public policy.

Election returns and public - opinion studies indicate discontent with some serious imperfections in recent liberal political policies and programs; studies also show that the general population does not want to give up the values of such programs and still wants additional selected government services.

If the World Trade Organization penalized countries that imposed such a tariff, its nature would be exposed, and public opinion, acting through governments, might yet reduce its power or change its policies.

Could public opinion sustain such a policy as the public seems to oppose even the more limited bombing proposed by President Obama?

Public opinion is running ahead of Government policy in support for families and the role of fathers.

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The researchers asked a selected group of voters to state their opinions on a variety of real public policy questions, and then presented them with fabricated poll results on the same topics.

James Frayne is Director of Policy & Strategy at Policy Exchange and is author of Meet the People, a guide to public opinion.

They argue that Labour has a duty to try and actively change public opinion, not simply reflect it, particularly when a widely supported policy will inflict severe hardship on thousands of families.

Among those who did, a minority incorrectly assume that if the video was produced in the U.S., it must represent American public opinion or tacit government policy.

Indeed, influencing public opinion within the context of public policy issues may have different meanings to different advocacy groups.

Incorporating important lessons from the 2012 and 2014 U.S. elections, this book is essential for anyone running for office or trying to influence public opinion and public policy in 2016.

And while Powell was subsequently sacked from his post of Shadow Secretary of State for Defence, the political leaders who came after him did not do enough to close the gap between their policies and public opinion.

Among our number are many leading experts on community cohesion, asylum, refugees, migration, politics, public opinion, policy and law.

More controversially, they also cover material relating to government policy formulation (including the background information on which decisions were based) and anything else which «would in the reasonable opinion of a qualified person be likely to prejudice the effect conduct of public affairs» - something again left undefined in the Act.

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.

Israel can pursue business as usual and its expansionary policies in the West Bank and Jerusalem, as well as victimise itself before international public opinion.

The Social Liberal Forum contributes to the discourse on public policy within the Liberal Democrats and in the public realm through events, blog posts and opinion articles, engagement with the media and political leaders and through publications.

Elections enable people to vote on party policies and the merits of each candidate, to ensure that public opinion is broadly reflected in Parliament.

The reaction on Twitter to major political events and policy decisions often differs a great deal from public opinion as measured by surveys....

Negative perspectives regarding the EU began to gain enough traction to increase hesitation and shift public opinion and Serbian policy.

James Frayne is Director of Policy & Strategy at Policy Exchange and author of Meet the People, a guide to public opinion.

The group is designed to encourage action, influence public opinion that will lead to policy change.

It also contains provisions for advisory referendums that will test public opinion and can influence policies.

For example, one missing variable that could account for much of the variation is that in America there's a strong history of public opinion (albiet not perfectly) translating into policy through democratic process, while in Egypt, average people have had incredible difficulty getting public opinion into policy and a protest was one of the tools that seemed to work.

«The education manifesto is a patchwork of policies, littered with contradictions and hopelessly out of touch with public opinion.

Some of those reporters have knowingly or unknowingly reported stories that have affected public opinion and moved government policy.

Throughout the period 1937, until the spring of 1939, the majority of public opinion and most of the Whitehall establishment supported him, but he failed to recognise how events undercut the policy which he had personalised.

Like the EU referendum bill, or Theresa May's attacks on imaginary health tourists, or Iain Duncan Smith's insistence on the effectiveness of his welfare reforms, this is another example of post-reality governance: policy based not on the real world, but on an imaginary one of PR messaging in which the sole purpose is stay in power by finding lines of public opinion and putting the opposition on the wrong side of them.