George Farah, an anti-trust lawyer who runs Open Debates, a group that calls the current debate system antidemocratic, said the town hall format had become more constrained by "candidate manipulation" over time.
Some might dismiss the complaints of marginal campaigns like Graham's as sour grapes, but increasingly the scepticism of polling is shared even by those for whom the results and the debate system have been kind.
Machat's personal and professional experience certainly qualify him to take on the corporate gatekeepers controlling the debate system he calls "the payola of airwaves".
As in the implicit attitude debate, dual systems models have recently come under fire (see Kruglanski 2013, Osman 2013, Mandelbaum forthcoming), though they remain very popular.
Although the relative merits of GEM and xenograft pancreatic cancer mouse models are subject to debate, both systems have and will continue to yield essential insights in understanding pancreatic cancer etiology.
The histories of holism and reductionism in the philosophy of biology are reviewed, and the current debate in systems biology is placed in context.
Though there is an existing institutionalised system to allocate resources through a process of informed debate, the system is not functioning ideally.
The objective of this article is to embed ATM in the wider health system strengthening debate, as a systems approach to improving ATM seeks to ensure that policies are more effective and generate longer-term equitable and sustainable results.
We could debate what system is best until the cows come home, but to seriously suggest that there is a viable alternative to AV at this stage is simply politically naive.
As Sen. Franken explained during today's debate, the system would provide incentives for accuracy (rather than for ratings that please issuers), and the board is self-governing.
What To Know Before Debating Type Systems explains this well.
