In a rebuttal, the Labor Department has said the studies concluding that six million more workers would be exempt were based on faulty assumptions and partisan thinking.
Perhaps there is a sense of liberation in an assumption of a partisan identity that removes the prominence of race (in Ansley's case, sexuality as well) as the dominant factor in shaping partisanship.
The papers have tirelessly devoted themselves to what the Italian political theorist Antonio Gramsci referred to as the manufacturing of "common sense", by which he meant the partisan but often unnoticed and unchallenged assumptions that tilt public opinion rightwards.
Understanding science as a special kind of representation should also provide defenses against untenable black-and-white rules that rest on untested judicial assumptions or, worse, on partisan assertions by experts.
The Republican campaign has been built on the assumption that Al Gore was too aggressive and partisan — too charmless, too blatantly marketed — to be tolerated in a quiet time.
This Article argues that this familiar claim is based on a mistaken assumption about how redistricters can best manipulate districts for partisan gain an assumption grounded in the idea that all voters can be thought of as either Democrats or Republicans.
He worked on the unrealistic assumption that his really was a post-racial, post-partisan, post-red-state-blue-state America.
The bickering obscures the common ground the parties hold: the assumption, which the public also shares, that to make war a partisan issue would be a Very Bad Thing.
This result confirms our earlier assumption that most legislators depend on the advice from political experts, consultants, partisan legislative staff, personal assistants and political advisers (categorized here as expert opinion) for scientific information for lawmaking.
Relaxing this assumption, and acknowledging that voters come in diverse ideological types, we highlight the fact that the optimal partisan gerrymandering strategy is quite different from the pack-and-crack strategy that is pervasive in the literature.
What was once a conservative assumption dismissed as extremism by the bien-pensants — that the Supreme Court is a highly ideological institution defined by partisan bias and anti-democratic overreach — is now a commonplace liberal belief as well.
