And, there's a very good reason for the politically lopsided innovation: the liberal tendency towards community and collectivism, psychologists have found, breeds technological experimentation with tools of decentralized action.
Because the Spanish liberals supported Isabella's claim, Don Carlos became the candidate of the clericals, asserting that he represented the true traditions of the monarchy, the church, and regional liberties against the foreign innovations of liberal constitutionalism and centralization.
They need, he writes, to "make the case for liberalism's first principles, to renew the work of liberal innovation and to convince their fellow citizens to make the American project a liberal project once again".
Earlier in the morning, CBC reporter Susan Bonner mistook Liberal Innovation, Science, and Economic Development Minister Navdeep Bains for the new NDP leader and immediately got dragged for it on Twitter (and yes, also by us).
As I argued before, when the Occupy Wall Street Movement caught our attention with its socially responsible mantra (which was championed by many "Millennials"), innovation is neither liberal, conservative, partisan, capitalist nor socialist.
This linkage was reinforced in the 1960s by a burst of liberal innovation resulting in the enactment of Medicare and Medicaid, expanded rights for women and minorities, a right to aid for the poor, and federal aid to education.
In contrast, some research has attributed innovations to particular liberal individuals, especially top leaders; their ideas and interests are considered the key factors for policy innovations at the local level (Cheung et al. 1998).
Slovakia, a more conservative place, tends to adopt a more sceptical approach to liberal innovations like relaxing drug laws.But the Czech move is motivated not only by mores.
Business school professors like Clayton M. Christensen tell us that "disruptive innovation" is causing liberal-arts learning to be "disintermediated" so as to deliver just what the "end user" needs.
But Harry Guggenheim, Newsday's conservative owner, disapproved of the paper's liberal innovations under Moyers, particularly what he called its "left-wing" coverage of the antiwar movement.
