Moreover, the levels of information required by governments were too demanding for the policies to be feasible.
Finally, globalization has meant an increased demand for policy advice and a new role for think tanks that are forced to study policy alternatives from around the globe and then adapt them to their local context.
Political disobedience, by contrast, resists the very way in which we are governed: it resists the structure of partisan politics, the demand for policy reforms, the call for party identification, and the very ideologies that dominated the post-War period.
Some decades ago, you would have heard a sustained outcry against such dire conditions among blacks, and there would have been loud demands for policy changes designed to bring more black Americans into the economic mainstream.
The economic turmoil occurred against the backdrop of a national election, and the Republican administration's controversial response to the crisis, accompanied by a public demand for policy change, helped Democrats take full control in Washington.
There, he said, he told the governor-elect to expect to come under extreme pressure from members of his own party and from interest groups that have five years of pent-up demand for policy changes.
If a request for a modifying policy change is seen as an individual accommodation, or a request for an individual accommodation is confused with a demand for policy change, the results for disability civil rights can be dire and that's exactly what happened as the Court interpreted the Rehabilitation Act, and ultimately the ADA.
Publicized cases such as that of Kalief Browder — a teen ager who committed suicide after being held at Ricker's for three years without being convicted of a crime (approximately two years of that time was in solitary) — have led to demands for policy changes, while the show "Orange is the New Black" has brought the issue into popular culture.
Just to be clear, I'm not above criticizing demands for policy purity; I've gotten in arguments with some on the left who have become so committed to single-payer health care that they dismiss anyone who proposes other routes to universal coverage as corporate sellouts.
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