Most damaging, it obscures the extent to which Americans create their own problems and shifts attention from what they can and should do to overcome them — whether it's protecting national secrets from the likes of a Edward Snowden or developing and executing a consistent, intelligible policy toward Syria and Iran.
Democracy for Realists, published earlier this year by the social science professors Christopher Achen and Larry Bartels, argues that the "folk theory of democracy" – the idea that citizens make coherent and intelligible policy decisions, on which governments then act – bears no relationship to how it really works.
He revived the militia, reequipped and reorganized the navy, and sought to unite all parties and public opinion behind a coherent and intelligible war policy.
The Oceania regional assessment demonstrates how different health impacts can be represented separately, illustrating variation in risk between geographic regions and subpopulations, which may be more transparent and intelligible for policy makers.
Once upon a time I was an intelligent and intelligible adult.
One area she said Mozilla has been working on is making its privacy policies more accessible and intelligible for mobile users — by, for instance, writing them using a ninth grade reading model and using bullet points to condense and foreground key points, to offer a digested and accessible summary ahead of the full T&Cs.
An approach that builds on our demonstration would involve additional stakeholders in developing politically intelligible, country-specific targets to help national policy makers and stakeholders accurately assess their performance relative to their potential.
The regulation tightens requirements on obtaining consent for processing citizens' personal data by, for example, increasing transparency requirements — basically requiring that privacy policies be written in clear and intelligible language, explaining exactly how the data will be used, in order that people can make a genuine, informed choice to consent (or not consent).
This sort of nastiness is more easily intelligible than the aggregate kind and is at least as important because many voters form their judgments on character first and policy only secondarily.
No intelligible words, just news tinnitus.
At least that dialogue is intelligible.
