Sentences with phrase «social policy decisions»

Admittedly, the law is a blunt tool for making nuanced social policy decisions.

It signals that the organizers can not see the connection between science policies, other restrictive social policy decisions and their effects on the life chances of marginalized researchers.

As a consequence, the social scientist, whether or not he intends it, is implicated in the formation of social policy decisions.

Rikki Dean primarily researches approaches to public participation in social policy decision - making.

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Many governments, businesses and social organizations rely on the data, and opposition groups argue the Conservatives are attempting to influence future public policy decisions since low - income earners and immigrants will be less likely to fill out a voluntary form.

«[A] most every kind of public policy decision [today is] made as a matter of a cost - benefit ratio,» governance advocate Robert A. G. Monks, explained in a 2008 interview published on the website Social Funds.

The decision your government, or any government, makes with respect to the Health and Social transfers to the Provinces / Territories will seriously impact the future size and policy role of the federal government.

The mutual dependence of corporations and society implies that both business decisions and social policies must follow the principle of shared value.

It's also a matter of social practices, governmental policies, political decisions, economic strategies and ideologies that are spread through education and media.

Among them are the rights to: bullet joint parenting; bullet joint adoption; bullet joint foster care, custody, and visitation (including non-biological parents); bullet status as next - of - kin for hospital visits and medical decisions where one partner is too ill to be competent; bullet joint insurance policies for home, auto and health; bullet dissolution and divorce protections such as community property and child support; bullet immigration and residency for partners from other countries; bullet inheritance automatically in the absence of a will; bullet joint leases with automatic renewal rights in the event one partner dies or leaves the house or apartment; bullet inheritance of jointly - owned real and personal property through the right of survivorship (which avoids the time and expense and taxes in probate); bullet benefits such as annuities, pension plans, Social Security, and Medicare; bullet spousal exemptions to property tax increases upon the death of one partner who is a co-owner of the home; bullet veterans» discounts on medical care, education, and home loans; joint filing of tax returns; bullet joint filing of customs claims when traveling; bullet wrongful death benefits for a surviving partner and children; bullet bereavement or sick leave to care for a partner or child; bullet decision - making power with respect to whether a deceased partner will be cremated or not and where to bury him or her; bullet crime victims» recovery benefits; bullet loss of consortium tort benefits; bullet domestic violence protection orders; bullet judicial protections and evidentiary immunity; bullet and more...

Niebuhr said that the relevant norm for political decisions and social policy is not love, as the liberals had claimed, but justice.

They involve new laws and policies, radical changes in mentalities and lifestyles, codes of conduct for businesses and institutions, changes in the content of curricula and textbooks, new norms and decision - making methods in politics, health care and education systems, new strategic priorities for international cooperation, radically new approaches to development, fundamental transformation of democratic principles and mechanisms - a new social ethos imposed on all.

Hence, the use of technology for good purposes runs into three tough problems at once: (1) balancing private wants and social needs; (2) harmonizing the plans made by individual experts with the decisions of the public as a whole; and (3) devising long - range policies in a political system which responds best to immediately felt needs, fears, and wants and which has a generally ill - informed electorate.

It is in fact an extension into the field of higher education of the government policy of globalization, that is, of letting the global market decide the pattern of economic development of the nation without intervention from the government in the name of social justice, protection of the natural environment or national self - reliance; it is a decision to make economic growth the ultimate criterion not only of economic development but also of social and cultural development of the peoples of the country.

Clearly, assuring women's moral freedom and establishing a social policy that provides them with real options so that they can take responsibility for life and make authentic decisions of conscience ought to be the priority for both the prolife and the prochoice groups.

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.

But ideas about constitutional change can not have social (indeed, any) practical effect unless they are adopted as executive policy even if that executive policy is, in any particular case, a policy decision to let the people decide in a referendum.

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Evaluating Decision Making Procedures for Regional Funding Allocations, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council and carried out by Dr Sarah Ayres of the School for Policy Studies at Bristol University.

Candidates on the Independence line do not have to take marching orders from political party bosses or follow tooth and nail a restrictive party platform insofar as policy positions and social issues are concerned, instead they are free to make conscious and pragmatic decisions as to what is best for their constituency.

A policy and research Think Tank, VIAM Africa Centre for Education and Social Policy, says government's hasty decision to convert the country's polytechnics into technical universities, could have dire concerns on the quality expected to come about as a result of the convepolicy and research Think Tank, VIAM Africa Centre for Education and Social Policy, says government's hasty decision to convert the country's polytechnics into technical universities, could have dire concerns on the quality expected to come about as a result of the convePolicy, says government's hasty decision to convert the country's polytechnics into technical universities, could have dire concerns on the quality expected to come about as a result of the conversion.

Despite the influence of Thaler's ideas on research and social policy, they are controversial among decision researchers (SN: 6/4/11, p. 26).

The work applies expertise in ecology, hydrology, geography, and the social sciences to decision - making about urban landscapes and the valuation of ecosystem services, among other policy issues.

The findings, published in the November issue of Social Science & Medicine, indicate that neighborhood quality has significant and long - term effects on child and adolescent problem behaviors, findings that can help inform national, state, and local housing policy and community investment decisions.

Socially guided food - policy decisions should value the environmental, health, social and cultural benefits offered by agrobiodiversity, Prof. Johns argues.

«The marketing objective of selling services by making them seem attractive to consumers can create tensions or outright conflict with the ethical imperative of respect for persons, since the latter requires that patients make medical decisions in light of balanced information about the full range of risks and benefits associated with their care,» said London, professor of philosophy in CMU's Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences and director of the Center for Ethics and Policy.

Better communication from the public and policymakers can provide scientists with clearer signals regarding the public's concern and science's role in addressing them,» said Fischhoff, the Howard Heinz University Professor of Social and Decision Sciences and Engineering and Public Policy.

In their paper, Fischhoff and Davis, a research scientist in engineering and public policy who received his Ph.D. from CMU in social and decision sciences, outline the challenges of explaining the uncertainty that is part of all scientific research findings.

«Eating lettuce is over three times worse in greenhouse gas emissions than eating bacon,» said Paul Fischbeck, professor of social and decisions sciences and engineering and public policy.

One was the substance of the debate, which is important for Western science - based societies and has long - range implications for the books our children read, the science they are taught, the logic by which national decisions ranging from social policy to military intervention will be reached.

«You can not just jump and assume that any vegetarian diet is going to have a low impact on the environment,» said Paul Fischbeck, professor of social and decision sciences and engineering and public policy and one of the authors of the study.

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Yet Brown «s power was attenuated by subsequent court decisions, policy choices, and social trends.

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.

Professor Gary Orfield is Professor of Education and Social Policy and founding Co-Director of the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University is the author of many books and articles on school desegregation and other civil rights issues and his work was cited by the Supreme Court in its recent decision on affirmative action.

Gary Orfield, Professor of Education and Social Policy at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Co-Director of CRP, commented on the significance of releasing this work at a time set aside to honor Dr. King: «Martin Luther King's dream is being celebrated in theory and dishonored in practice with the decisions and methods that our re-segregating our schools.

In this edition of the Harvard EdCast, Cashin, author of Place, Not Race, explains how the benefits of race - based admissions decisions are actually outweighed by the social costs, and argues for a return to what she considers the original intent of affirmative action policies: helping people — no matter their race — who have been systemically locked out of opportunity.

The decisions of this new leader will impact the future of more than half a million children every year, with massive public policy and social justice ripple effects...

The decisions of this new leader will impact the future of more than half a million children every year, with massive public policy and social justice ripple effects reverberating far beyond the district's attendance boundary.

National social studies tests for 4th grade students and high school seniors have been indefinitely postponed as a result of sequestration cuts, which has alarmed social studies advocates and contributed to the perception that federal decision making and policies have narrowed the curriculum and downplayed the role of subjects other than reading and math in preparing students for college and careers.

What you fail to acknowledge with this argument is that choice policies can also create a tremendous burden for families and that not all families have the same social and financial resources or time to effectively navigate choice systems and make informed decisions.

Planners identify community needs, resources, and problems and assist citizens to make decisions on goals, policies, priorities, plans, programs, and methods of implementation designed to create a physical, economic, and social environment desired by the members of the community (e.g., modes of public transportation to grocery stores, daycare facilities, places of employment, medical facilities etc.).

The DOT EJ Order directs the Department to consider EJ objectives when administering the requirements of NEPA; Title VI and related statutes; the Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acquisition Policies Act of 1970, as amended; planning statutes in Title 23, U.S. Code and Title 49, U.S. Code; and other statutes, regulations, and Executive Orders that address or affect transportation infrastructure planning and decision - making; social, economic or environmental matters; public health; or public involvement.

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Let people make their own decisions on buying and selling, and let the IRS take a consistent cut, but social policy through tax preferences is for the most part not a good idea.

Seen through the eyes of collective discussion and decision - making, the collection at its center articulates the politicized engagement against right - wing social and economic policy that emerged in 1980s and 90s New York, not least the activism that solidified around the AIDS Crisis.

The model explores short - term scenarios of policy decisions by simulating social - economical - environmental systems, including the impact of climate - induced drought on crop failures and food prices.

Sapience is the capacity of the prefrontal cortex to process tacit knowledge to guide cleverness (general intelligence + creativity) in wicked problem solving (e.g., complex social and policy decisions).

Whether it is the decision to build an atomic bomb or to enact policies to curb ozone depletion, we are increasingly confronted with science - based public policy decisions that have wide - ranging effects on the social and political landscape.