Word: equalization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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However, the April 10, 1996 Opinion was simply too much to bear. Three different articles demonstrated equal amounts of inanity--a hat trick the Crimson should no doubt be proud...
...University regards these numbers as unacceptable, according to the report. Efforts to remedy them must continue, regardless of the recent national debates on affirmative action, according to Associate Vice President James S. Hoyte '65 and Director of Equal Employment Opportunity and Compliance Mela Martorano...
...what if we were able to ensure that everyone had an equal shot at financing political campaigns? Several constitutional theorists have suggested that such a scheme would be the apex of campaign finance reform. For instance, in his "Equal Dollars Per Voter," Edward Foley argues that all private funding should be eliminated from campaigns, allowing each voter to allocate an equal proportion of a pool of public financing to favored candidates...
...with others. The usual exchange involved some mutual laments about the demoralizing nature of present campaigns, a few comments on the feasibility of given reforms and a brief evaluation of current political leaders. Whenever I spoke with a fellow "liberal," we always talked about how best to ensure the "equal influence" of all people, rich and poor, in governmental policy. But one of the conversations broke this mold, and helped me see the problems with an "equal influence" paradigm of reform...
...believe that campaign finance reformers could develop far more compelling programs for reform if they took the "participation/deliberation" distinction seriously. The "equal influence" paradigm of reform automatically posits a divergence of interests between different parts of the electorate. By calling reform an opportunity for "fair deliberation," the emphasis is less on controversial schemes of distribution than on opportunities for consensus-building. With this model of reform in mind, reformers could attack distortions like thirty-second attack ads and "push-polling" through which the right does much of its "dirty work." And they would not merely be looking at campaign finance...