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The head of the British debates' organizing committee, Professor Malcolm Grant, called them a "unique experiment to find out what ordinary people really think once they've heard all the arguments."
In the wake of Argentina's full-scale collapse and the slowing of economic growth across the region, debates about economic policy have intensified.
By emphasizing the federal nature of India's polity, he is directly addressing an issue that has moved front and center in debates over economic reform in an era of globalization.
But there is a crucial difference: In the US, such proto-fascist language is heard on the extremist fringes; in Britain, even mainstream media and parliamentary debates routinely refer to opponents of Brexit as anti-democratic schemers and unpatriotic saboteurs.
Thirty years ago, I participated in similar East/West debates.
Their overall effort may be useful, because it injects into Central European debates a diversity of ideas that is essential for people who once lived in the sterile atmosphere of a totalitarian regime, and where habits of conformity linger.
Its parliamentary debates are often pugilistic and personal.
Tony Blair’s Democratic InsurrectionLONDON – Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s recent call for voters to think again about leaving the European Union, echoed in parliamentary debates ahead of the government’s official launch of the process in March, is an Emperor’s New Clothes moment.
Struggles over the re-distribution of property, and debates about the form of the market economy continue, of course, but everybody sees Russia’s market economy as a reality.
The Commission should be organizing public debates that give equal prominence to dissenting views.
Any citizen could take part in one of ten nationally televised debates and argue with government officials.
Moreover, the presidential candidates themselves engaged in two rounds of televised debates and gave another two televised speeches - a political openness new to Taiwan and unique in the Chinese political world.
Moreover, the immediacy of the needs created by the 2008 financial crisis in terms of food security and credit shortages subdued these debates.
The Migrant BoonOXFORD/SHANGHAI – Many of the immigration debates now raging around the world reflect the faulty assumption that admitting immigrants is an act of largesse – and a costly one, at that.
The EU has had little to say, for example, about what kind of governance rules and standards should guide debates over the much-needed rebalancing between surplus and deficit states.
A Balance-Sheet Approach to Fiscal PolicyWASHINGTON, DC – Everyone is talking about debt, citing huge nominal figures that strongly affect public-policy debates worldwide.
Current fiscal-policy debates should not focus on simplistic headline numbers.
To strengthen public accounts, both conservatives and progressives should start promoting a long-term balance-sheet-oriented approach to policymaking, ensuring that the debates are based on relevant data.
Energy debates in the US, Australia, and other countries have centered so far on introducing a cumbersome cap-and-trade permit system.
Bentham collected examples of fallacies, often from parliamentary debates.
The “wisdom of our ancestors” fallacy has often been invoked in debates over same-sex marriage.
This question is often posed in connection with debates concerning the amount of sovereignty that nation-states can, or should, transfer to the European Union.
Technocratic debates about how to achieve the greatest good for the most people could proceed without the baggage of deranged ideologies.
Concerned about sparking an ethnic clash, Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi has proclaimed a ban on open discussion of these issues, threatening to arrest Internet news providers and activists if they continue to fan such debates.
Among the many surprises during the Republican Party presidential candidates’ debates a couple of weeks ago was the rekindled importance of immigration.
But as Democrats discovered in other recent debates, and as Republicans realized with a little help from the CNN organizers, who skewed the questions toward issues they feel strongly about, immigration is an issue that just won’t go away.
That possibility is not just a theoretical construct in fringe debates two decades ago; it is a real historical alternative.
Much of the new battle over lifestyles is undoubtedly misunderstood, perhaps because debates about them are conducted in a simplistic way: anti-global movements versus multi-nationals, environmentalists versus corporate polluters, small farmers versus agro-business, and so on.
The growing contentiousness of technology is exemplified in debates over so-called net neutrality and disputes between Apple and the FBI over unlocking suspected terrorists’ iPhones.
Debates rage over the bilateral trade balance and revaluation of the renminbi, the status of Taiwan and Tibet, human rights violations, and intellectual property theft.
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