Sentences with phrase «submerged state»

One of the corollaries of Mettler's book is that the existence of the submerged state acts as a systematic barrier to proper recognition of government intervention.

Mettler's point, in essence, is that pudding, pensions, and prosperity may sometimes be fostered or improved by the submerged state, but that democratic engagement, participation, and accountability are damaged, and these must take precedence.

It is a laudable laundry list and Mettler's book makes a highly persuasive case for change — the submerged state is largely economically regressive, detrimental to citizens» knowledge and agency, and often expensive.

Mettler shows how Republican politicians, along with increasing numbers of Democratic accomplices, have expanded the submerged state because it gives the appearance of privatisation and governmental spending restraint, when in reality it represents vast outlays by government in subsidy payments and lost tax revenues.

Mettler examines three parts of the American submerged state — subsidised bank - based student lending, private healthcare, and tax expenditures — and details the Obama administration's efforts to reform them.

Opinion polling demonstrates that citizens are largely unaware of the existence of the submerged state; consequently they do not give government due credit for its intervention or hold it to account in an informed way.

The Submerged State: Atlantis?

The basic information treatment was intended to mimic statements that politicians routinely offer about the policies of the submerged state.

Only high levels of information encourage citizens to hold the government to account for submerged state policies.

Perhaps unintentionally, Mettler's term for such policies, «the submerged state», sounds exactly the note of chilly state conspiracy that supporters of the right fear.

The Submerged State: How Invisible Government Policies are Undermining American Democracy.

Such outlays are far greater than for many visible social policies, and since the submerged state is hidden from view, politicians have a great deal more knowledge of its true cost than their ordinary supporters do.

Mettler's book is chiefly about the strains this knowledge gap places on democracy, but there is at least an implicit invitation to ponder the partisan paradox presented by the right's embrace of the sneaky submerged state.

Readers may gasp at the scope of Mettler's demands for submerged state reform, and her book may well leave many with doubts about its practicability.

By «submerged state» Mettler means a set of indirect government subsidies and benefits whose size and beneficiaries, indeed whose very existence, is largely invisible to the public.

Unhelpfully, from the perspective of opponents like Mettler, the policies of the submerged state are sometimes both desired and worthy of desire.

Citizens are largely unaware that the submerged state fosters inequality; if they were to be provided with this information they would not give it their support.

Mettler's assessment of Obama's attempts to reform the submerged state shows that reformers face an uphill struggle.

Not exact matches

The guard tower at an evacuated Texas State prison unit in Rosharon, Texas, is submerged by water from the flooded Brazos River in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, September 1, 2017.

That, however, is not so easy to do when for centuries the church has followed policies (not unwittingly, as the Fuller professors state, but systematically and by unholy design) that sought to de-Judaize the Jews and submerge them in various brands of Christendom.

For those who haven't fully submerged themselves into college basketball yet this season, Arizona State is a perfect 9 - 0 and ranked # 5 in the nation.

Cuomo is scheduled to be on Long Island today to announce the largest expansion of the state's artificial reef program with the addition of a mountain of material from the demolished Tappan Zee Bridge and decommissioned vessels to be submerged in waters around Long Island.

State Police were called to the scene at 7:20 a.m. on Friday and saw the vehicle some five feet off the roadway submerged in the water.

There have been massive floods in some Northern states where, for instance, speed boats were used to evacuate students of Usman Danfodio University to safety; when communities have been cut off due to collapsed bridges in Kebbi State with thousands of hectares of farmlands washed away or submerged in Jigawa State.

Last week, while Benue State was submerged by flood, the President travelled to his hometown where he was receiving his old classmates.

Flood has submerged twenty one communities in Burutu Local Government Area of Delta State.

The heavy downpour that was experienced in Otta area of Ogun state on Sunday has left four communities and their entire road networks submerged in flood...

This group of small countries constitute roughly five percent of the global population.The member - states share the same challenges in terms of scarce resources, vulnerability to natural disasters, dependency on international trade, and small but growing populations in narrow and sometimes submerging portions of land.

Beeker was on the committee that helped draft the legislation, which acknowledged the value of historic wrecks and clarified the ownership and management of them on federal, state and tribal submerged lands.

McCain is in favor of drilling in the Outer Continental Shelf federally controlled submerged land off all U.S. coasts (as opposed to state - controlled seabed)-- in order to lessen American dependence on foreign oil and lower gas prices.

In the 1980s, with a new name inspired by novelist Jules Verne's «20,000 Leagues Under the Sea,» Jules» Undersea Lodge was transformed into the United States» only submerged recreational hotel for divers.

Altered States (Hulu, July 1st) During the Sixties, scientist John C. Lilly was a pioneer on the frontier of consciousness, testing the capabilities of the human mind by ingesting LSD and other psychedelics while submerged in a sensory - deprivation tank.

The Hollywood sign mercilessly erased by an enormous tornado, the Statue of Liberty submerged by a gigantic tidal wave, the Empire State Building teetering perilously in a massive blizzard — apparently, the post-9 / 11 cinematic moratorium on destroying national landmarks for disposable summer kicks has lasted only two and a half years.

The Commando is Mil Spec MIL - STD - 810G certified, which states it can be submerged in up to a meter of water for 30 minutes, can withstand a 26 four - foot drops and is resistant to a range of elements.

Divided into 3 parts - a state of the art gymnasium, an exquisite spa and a beauty salon - ILA de SVA, Sahara's spa and wellness centre allows guests to submerge into tender healing and rejuvenate their mind, body and soul.

The artist states: «Through my paintings I bring you to seeing the phosphorences that bathe in the depths in which we are submerged, and that navigate along our cellular chains.

Given that the works within this installation reference topics that range from submerged histories and identities, to landscape, to the liminal positions that result from migration, to metaphysical states of being, to the site of the art museum, their movement through and around these issues suggests that our relationships to locations are always shifting.

Given that that the works within this installation reference topics that range from submerged histories and identities, to landscape, to the liminal positions that result from migration, to metaphysical states of being, to the site of the art museum, their movement through and around these issues suggests that our relationships to locations are always shifting.

For the Lake and Reservoirs series that he photographs the bodies of water in western United States and submerges the C - Print in water collected from the subject of the photograph.

You should call some Floridians or Louisianans and ask them: would you care if melting ice on Greenland or West Antarctica submerges more than half of your state even if it wouldn't occur for another 100 to 1,000 years (there's a lot we don't know about ice sheet dynamics).

«The colliding forces of human fertility, submerging coastal zones, residential retreat, and impediments to inland resettlement are a huge problem,» said Charles Geisler, professor emeritus of development sociology at Cornell University, in New York state.

For instance, small island states say the focus on a two - degree maximum temperature increase would likely submerge entire countries.

Pursuant to the Submerged Lands Act of 1953, 43 U.S.C. § 1301 et seq., individual U.S. states have rights to natural resources found within 3 nautical miles of the coast (BOEM 2017a).

If there are no restrictions on emissions by the year 2300, sea levels will be from 1 metre to more than 3 metres higher, which would submerge many low - ying countries and most island states.

It concludes that the likelihood of any of these matters flooding the entire Eastern Seaboard and leaving the state of Florida completely submerged is «very slim.»

When the employee returned to the pool while the boy was submerged underwater, the employee reportedly rendered no assistance and failed to call for medical help, as stated in the lawsuit.

«This sad story is that of a young boy submerged by the messages of violence, of vengeance and of war issued by the Islamic State,» Wilhelmy said.

Confirming the principle in the Seas and Submerged Lands case [69] that the «acquisition of territory by a sovereign state for the first time is an act of state which can not be challenged, controlled or interfered with by the Courts of that state», [70] Justice Brennan in Mabo identified the extent of the court's power as merely «determining the consequences of an acquisition [of sovereignty] under municipal law».

He found that the High Court's apparent endorsement of that case in the Sea and Submerged Lands Act case (59) was really only an acknowledgement of the state of the law at the time of Federation in 1901.

Florida law provides that the state owns all submerged land under navigable waters and the land between the low tide line and the mean high - tide line.