All the Chinese reporters disappeared on Saturday morning, however, as the government, apparently nervous, suddenly imposed without explanation a blanket ban on domestic media coverage of the strike.
This paper offers an alternative perspective: Judicially-imposed explanation requirements can help reviewing courts overcome their informational disadvantage for reasons that are independent of their ability to assess the substantive content of government explanations.
If the strategy fails, there will be a large number of apparent explanations that fail to satisfy the necessary conditions for explanation imposed by the DN/IS model.
In other words, if an objective homogeneity condition is imposed on statistical explanation, it is not clear that there will be any examples of successful statistical explanation outside of quantum mechanics.
We are not simple creatures, we human beings, and we know it; yet we still insist on imposing simple explanations upon our emotional conduct.
After allowing nationwide television and newspaper reporting of the early days of the transmission plant strike, Beijing authorities have imposed severe restrictions, without explanation, on the ability of the domestic media to report on labor unrest.
Horst Möller, another historian, said that rather than excusing Nazi atrocities, Professor Nolte was attempting to impose a rational explanation on "irrational" events.
A closely related point is that at least some of the models described above impose requirements on explanation that may be satisfiable in some domains of inquiry but are either unachievable (in any practically interesting sense) in other domains or, to the extent that they may be achievable, bear no discernible relationship to generally accepted goals of inquiry in those domains.
(Although one can see clearly here the stark contrast between Fodor's use of the term and that of Weber or Hayek, for whom the ability of the social scientist to provide something beyond merely causal explanation was what imposed the methodological commitment to the action-theoretic level of analysis).
But Ms. MacKinnon noted that in contrast to other countries China defined crime very broadly, imposed censorship with little if any explanation and provided no process for operators of blocked Web sites to appeal censorship.
They also reveal the key aspects of Becker's hierarchical belief of 'moral quality', of those high in ranks, in this case the executive, which imposes definitions and explanations about facts and events on community members.
