Word: modeling
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...where an increasing number of individuals have become so cynical about the political process that they don't even bother to vote. That space where politicians communicate arguments to citizens and citizens develop their own opinions is in serious jeopardy. If Cotton is genuinely committed to his "true model of deliberative democracy," then it seems that he has much to learn from Habermas after all. --Jared H. Beck...
According to Weinberg, Rawlins has adopted a model of a president who sets an agenda and chooses people to lead task forces...
...This model is fundamentally an elitist one, one that misunderstands and degrades the content of what those outside the "chosen" circle have to say. It is even untenable as an elitist model: since no person's arguments can be free of personal interest, and no one is capable of fully conceiving some objectively defined version of the common good, Cotton is effectively calling for the establishment of an elite whose membership would consist of the empty set. Moreover, the very idea that there exists some singular and objective idea of the common good is contradictory to the idea of democratic...
Spencer's marriage to the former model Victoria Lockwood fell apart three years ago. But only last week did the two parties engage in bitter court battle to decide whether their divorce should proceed in Britain or in South Africa, where both now reside. Lockwood, who wants the case moved back to Britain, claimed that the couple did not expect to live permanently in South Africa and that Spencer had lied about his reasons for moving the family there in the first place. He said, she said, that the move was to allow their children to escape the glare...
...Japan Inc. model, which has been adopted to varying degrees across East Asia, relies on the body politic's accepting the dictates of a meritocracy chosen from society's best and brightest. When the technocrats decreed that the economy needed vast amounts of capital to invest in development, the citizens did not protest, even when cajoled into saving upwards of a fifth of their incomes. On this ocean of funds, the economic mandarins launched one industrial battleship after another, directing banks to back companies in industries that offered the most potential for growth. Profits be damned too--market share...