The phrase "absence of mandates" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where there are no official requirements or directives in place.
Example: "The project proceeded smoothly due to the absence of mandates that could have complicated the process."
Alternatives: "lack of mandates" or "nonexistence of mandates".
The absence of mandated coverage for athletes has prompted calls for change.
Results suggest nurses' prescribing practices are used in outpatient settings, viewed as conservative, with a value on physician collaboration even in the absence of legal mandates.
Health economists have mixed views on how difficult it would be to expand coverage and hold down costs in the absence of a mandate.
But when people don't buy health insurance until they get sick — which is what happens in the absence of a mandate — the resulting worsening of the risk pool makes insurance more expensive, and often unaffordable, for those who remain.
One could lambast the insurance companies for these ever-rising premiums, of course, but informed observers know better: the culprit would be the absence of a mandate to be insured.
Economic theory suggests that in the absence of a mandate to buy insurance (or very strong financial incentives to do so), many healthy individuals would take a chance and remain uninsured in the knowledge that when they fall seriously ill, their premium will not be based on their health status.
Until the federal government mandated that big companies provide health insurance to all their full-time workers, for example, many employers of low-paid, low-skilled people forewent the benefit; they didn't need it in order to attract workers, who were plentiful, and many of them didn't have the profit margins or revenue growth to justify it in the absence of a mandate.
Until the federal government mandated that big companies provide health insurance to all their full-time workers, for example, many employers of low-paid, low-skilled people forewent the benefit; they didn't need it in order to attract workers, who were plentiful, and many of them didn't have the profit margins — or revenue growth — to justify it in the absence of a mandate.
In the absence of a mandate to reduce greenhouse gas emissions or some other significant incentive for CCS deployment, this cost effectively limits CCS technology deployment to small niche markets and stymies the potential for further technological development through learning by doing until these disincentives for the free venting of CO2 are in place.
Pregnant women face numerous challenges at work -- discrimination in hiring and the absence of federally mandated maternity leave, to name two.
