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"This is someone who in law school worked with [Harvard professor] Larry Tribe on a paper on the legal implications of Einstein's theory of relativity," said senior adviser David M. Axelrod.
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Agenda setting theory posits that mass media play a powerful role of a 'gatekeeper' who decides which issues are important and how much prominence should be given to them.
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In September of 2009, Senator Joe Lieberman called a policy of allowing 55 and older Americans the option to buy into Medicare -- the Medicare buy-in -- a good idea. As of Sunday 12/13 Lieberman had changed his mind. The Medicare buy-in suddenly was as objectionable as the public option. Why? Lieberman's...
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Joe Lieberman's flip-flop on the medicare buy-in provision wasn't about ego or stupidity, it was about self-preservation. The flip-flop choice positions Lieberman better for a 2012 re-election, and, should he lose, leaves him with 'good soldier' status with the insurance industry -- aka lobbying options.
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The explanation for Lieberman’s 180-degree turn on the Medicare buy-in is the senator is a puppet of the insurance industry, which has invested more than $1 million in his campaigns since 1998 and is a major employer in Connecticut, saw the buy-in as a threat to its stranglehold on the 55-plus market. They called in their markers on Joe.
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David Brooks posits the theory that Barack Obama's moral and policy locus is that of a Christian Realist of the John Hibben, Reinhold Niebuhr strain. "Each person is part angel, part devil. Life is a struggle to push back against the evils of the world without succumbing to the passions of the beast lurking inside..."
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In his 1986 book, 'The Uncensored War' David Hallin created a new model of dynamic of journalism containing three spheres: the sphere of legitimate debate, the sphere of consensus and the sphere of deviance. The resulting model looks like a donut. The institutional ability of journalism to define 'legitimate debate' has peaked and is fast eroding.
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Large swaths of the conservative movement assert the '08 election was stolen by a concentrated effort at voter fraud by the group ACORN. But, even if you remove EVERY single new voter registration generated by ACORN (and assume each voter would have voted for Obama) the state-by-state math doesn't add up to a stolen election.
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Element in the theory of justice of American political theorist John Rawls (1921- ). Conditions for just social life can be sketched if people are imagined in an 'original position' where they decide upon social rules whilst behind a 'veil of ignorance' which prevents their knowing anything about their...
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Originally a theory justifying Communist Party leadership in tsarist Russia. Because the working class (allegedly) suffer from FALSE CONSCIOUSNESS, it was argued by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (1870-1924) that the Communist Party should take the lead in mobilizing industrial workers and organizing them into...
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Conception of the history of feminism, attributed to writers rather than claimed by them. Feminism is seen as having two waves. The first was concemed principally with political, legal, and constitutional rights, and with gaining the vote, up until the third decade of the 20th century. The second wave,...
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Reservation about democracy expressed by French historian Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-59). Aavoidable danger of democracy was a tyranny of majority opinion which would suppress the drive to individual judgment inherent in democratic theories. The term has also been used (as it was not by de Tocqueville)...
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Term originally used by the French philosopher and novelist Julien Benda (1867-1956) to describe the betrayal of intellectual values by the right wing. More generally, intellectuals by allying themselves too closely with government, states, or political parties betray the independence which is essential...
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Views originally developed by Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky (1879-1940). Revolution, once begun, must continue until workers' power is established worldwide. PERMANENT REVOLUTION is thus preferred to SOCIALISM IN ONE COUNTRY. David Miller et al., eds. The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Poltical Thought...
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An illustration of GAME THEORY. The tragedy of the commons is an illustration of how the rational pursuit of individual advantage appears to lead to solutions which are in the best INTERESTS of neither individuals nor the community as a whole. A group of peasants is assumed to have grazing rights,...
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A central element in the political theory of CONSERVATISM. Societies and constitutions are ordered by slowly established and time-tested values and institutions, rather than by rational schemes or plans. The task of government is to cultivate and work with these traditions, amending them where necessary,...
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Theory of despotic government. Totalitarian regimes are characterized by an ambition for permanence; attempted total control over all aspects of the lives of their subjects; concentration of power in a single leader; and use of mass propaganda and public ritual. The theory of totalitarianism attempts...
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Theory of modem war. Total mobilization of economies and populations for war is a unique feature of the modern world and of the 19th and 20th centuries. Graham Evans and Jeffrey Newnham, The Dictionary of World Politics (Hemel Hempstead, 1990) RB
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Theory of paternalist CONSERVATISM. Societies are characterized both by traditional values and institutions; and by division into a skilled and perceptive minority, and a less capable and less wise majority. It is the responsibility of the minority to further the INTERESTS of both TRADITION and the...
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Concept in GAME THEORY. There are circumstances in which one person can only win at the expense of another, or vice-versa. Such an assumption underlay MERCANTALISM and WAGES FUND THEORY. Roger Scruton, A Dictionary of Political Thought (London, 1982) RB
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With the end of conventional European imperialism, there were three groups of states, or three worlds; the industrial, developed, capatalist world; the socialist world of Eastern Europe and China; and the third world of newly liberated and underdeveloped states. The theory, which with the abdication...
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A theory developed by Pavlov that shows one can change a stimulus part of a stimulus-response pattern (like a flinch from a loud noise) to something neutral (a blue light turning on) and generate the same response. In this example, the blue light could cause the subject to flinch.
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Scholars at the global warming skeptics thinktank, "The Science and Public Policy Institute (SPPI)" say ocean acidification theory is a scare tactic ignores Cambrian data, the chemistry of CO2 and the alkaline affect of ocean rocks.
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