In its place are what we might see as "New Syriza" measures: commitments to improve the efficiency of the public sector and eliminate waste, to promote competition with a strengthened competition commission, to reform labour markets, to streamline pension schemes, not to reverse privatisations and take a pragmatic approach to future sales of government assets.
They also don't measure commitment to justice or the desire to practice in an essential underserved area of the law, or the interests and learning style best fitted to a particular school's strengths.
It is a crude way to measure commitment, but it is revealing to see that there are seven mentions of the word "inequality" in the Conservative manifesto, and not one in the Labour document; and while the word poverty is used 18 times by Labour and five times by the Liberal Democrats, the Conservative manifesto has 20 references.
Only a measured commitment to strategic democracy promotion will lead to long-term stability.
Are there ways to measure commitment, i.e., is a village visit when you're staying in five-star luxury down the road enough?
In one, Mike Ulster, a BP executive handling cleanup and damages, cites BP's commitment of billions of dollars to ecological and economic restoration and says, "People in the Gulf measure commitment by what's getting done".
The Kobasa Questionnaire [ 21, 22] was used to measure hardiness, subdivided into three subscales measuring commitment, control, and challenge.
His advisers told me that Sanders will fight for more anti-free-trade measures, a commitment to campaign-finance reform, and breaking up big banks.
Hanci measures political commitment to tackling hunger and undernutrition in 45 developing countries by looking at available data on government spending, policies and legal frameworks.
Results: A 20-item hospital safety climate scale that measures hospitals' commitment to bloodborne pathogen risk management programs was extracted through factor analysis from the 46 safety climate items.
