Sentences with phrase «way of understanding politics»

Nevertheless, this knowledge ought to be welcomed, for it offers a learning opportunity and, frankly, a better way of understanding politics and our opponents alike.

It seems to me that a good way of understanding the politics of the UK right now is in terms of five different kinds of reaction to these cultural and economic changes.

Not exact matches

Bush understood the politics of tax cuts in a way that Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan do not — which is why Ryan and Trump have produced a tax plan that is a political time bomb.

She insists on an essentially theological view of the world as the only appropriate starting point for effective radical politics — the only way to maintain a right understanding of what we are about and to avoid partisanship in our efforts to do justice, love mercy and walk humbly with God.

Yet mysticism is scarcely half of what spirituality is about — the other half being prophecy, by which I understand the living out of the grace - experience in the body politic by way of justice.

I have suggested, then, that many of the choices governing the ways in which we understand contemporary relations between religion and politics are contingent on the broader assumptions we find built into our major theoretical perspectives.

(4) But politics can not be detached from a shared understanding of the way things are.

«To understand a reassertion of the grandeur of politics, you must risk a crick in your neck» (Simon & Schuster, 1983, pp. 21 - 26) Will's «crick in the Neck» refers to his call to go all the way back to Plato, but for my purpose we need go back only to the 1960s to try to see what took place in that baffling decade to produce the current liberal difficulty.

At a time of divisive and turbulent politics, the study of the way the brain functions has opened the way for a new understanding of ourselves and our societies.

For me, that offers one of the key perspectives on understanding societies, and it is a way of thinking about politics that shifts it away from the great theories and abstractions of political philosophers, who often can not speak with reference to everyday life.

The literature on dominant parties (Bogaards, 2004 and Greene, 2007) and competitive authoritarianism (Schedler, 2009 and Levitski and Way, 2010) provide useful insights for understanding the party politics of the region.

They need to pursue reforms to address the lost satisfaction with, and relevance and infl uence of Parliament, to establish that they have understood public frustration with the way politics is conducted and to help build trust.

I can fully understand and appreciate why we need more women in politics but this way of doing it is far from ideal.

It spent much of the last parliament trying to pass a bill guaranteeing an EU referendum this parliament, even though anyone with the tiniest glimmer of understanding about how politics works would tell you that the way to guarantee that is to win an election.

It's very damaging for Britain a country that stood up for democracy over the last century to see the BNP elected to the European parliament we have to make sure that we take very, very seriously the challenge to democratic politics that they show... Every vote is of equal value and it is important we try to understand why people have voted they way they have and we make sure the strength of this country and it's traditions of decency will win out.

But Gianaris said the way to defeat this is to make sure the voters understand the extremist politics of candidates such as former Republican gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino.

Many people have a basic understanding about how to dispose of their waste, but poverty, politics and prejudice often get in the way.

But rather than look down on the process of politics, the successful scientists and engineers of the future will find ways of understanding and participating in «politics» while not losing sight of the higher ideals of their scientific community.

About Blog Environmental Politics is attentive to the diverse ways in which «the environment» is and has been understood, and to the range of social and political strategies pursued in its name.

About Blog Environmental Politics is attentive to the diverse ways in which «the environment» is and has been understood, and to the range of social and political strategies pursued in its name.

To properly appreciate Syriana, one does have to have a familiarity with the make - up of the Middle East in the way things are run, a knowledge of the politics involved in the running of billion - dollar oil companies, an understanding of the duplicitous nature of the Central Intelligence Agency, and an awareness of terrorist organizations that would openly recruit young men that would kill themselves for the sake of a cause they may or may not be fully aware they are assisting.

This project will shift our understanding of teachers» unions as simply «self - interested» or «selfless,» to a more nuanced assessment of the role teachers play in politics, the diversity of political groups within unions, and the ways that teachers» unions in diverse contexts go beyond self - interest and become social movement actors.

There are simpler ways to understand the mess that comes out of national politics.

About Blog Environmental Politics is attentive to the diverse ways in which «the environment» is and has been understood, and to the range of social and political strategies pursued in its name.

Ligon's paintings and sculptures examine cultural and social identity through found sources — literature, Afrocentric coloring books, photographs — to reveal the ways in which the history of slavery, the civil rights movement, and sexual politics inform our understanding of American society.

Her paintings integrate complex themes — ranging from segregation, eroticism, or, more generally, the politics of love and war — to explore how image - making is implicitly involved not only in the cultural processes of objectification, but also in the way in which events are documented and collectively understood.

Glenn Ligon's intertextual works examine cultural and social identity — often through found sources such as literature, Afro - centric coloring books, and photographs — to reveal the ways in which slavery, the civil rights movement, and identity politics inform our understanding of American society.

I know I only understood in the most general way what the politics of fascism meant but I understood art could speak powerfully.

An exploration of the various ways in which sensibility is shaped, which is generated, expressed and understood in artistic practices and divergent modes of thought and reflection as arising from and in works of art, while recognizing the multiple connections that can be established between art, philosophy and politics.

For them, art is a way of speaking out against injustices such that citizens, media, and even public officials can be motivated to act; however the way in which art expresses its politics is shaped by realities understood both individually and within a community through poetic and aesthetic forms.

By considering the climate of queer citizens in Eastern Europe and Africa, the exhibition poses the question, «How might art and culture help us to look again at the way in which we understand the conditions of queer citizens in global politics?»

Q. Have you identified more (and less) successful ways of penetrating the fog of politics that prevents a greater understanding of (and commitment to develop solutions to) the long - run environmental problems?

Both sides of this issue need to understand this or nobody will «win» and losing in this game one way or the other is probably a very dangerous thing as the win must be with reality, not politics.

We understand there's a huge demand for Lightning applications but we will not let external politics get in the way of sound engineering and user safety.

About Blog Environmental Politics is attentive to the diverse ways in which «the environment» is and has been understood, and to the range of social and political strategies pursued in its name.

About Blog Environmental Politics is attentive to the diverse ways in which «the environment» is and has been understood, and to the range of social and political strategies pursued in its name.