One way to characterize this distinction is in terms of the parties' motivation and interaction.
As the review of the Gender Recognition Act approaches, with cross-party motivation to make the process of getting a Gender Recognition Certificate easier, perhaps a consideration should be: what happens if the certificate is obtained ahead of gender-confirmation surgery?
And, crucially, questions about the parties' motivations – whether they want to help ordinary people get on in life, share voters' values and are "on the side of people like me" (rather than, well, people like me) – have edged upwards in importance as the Labour lead on them has grown.
In either case, Rawls believes this account of the parties' motivations promotes greater clarity, and that to attribute to the parties moral motivations or benevolence towards each other would not result in definite choice of a conception of justice (TJ, 148 9/128 9; 584/5148 9/128 9
I disagreed: it was a private party, the motivation was respectful and matching physical appearances is a reasonable part of imitation.
To sustain a party's motivation in the transition from government to opposition requires crusading energy and political coherence; in their absence, you'll always get a stampede for the door.
He attributes the party's motivation to curb corruption to the perceived existential threat it poses to the communist regime.
According to Hamby, lingering memories of the GOP primary debates, in which Mitt Romney had to "stake out a number of conservative positions that came back to haunt him in the general election," loom large in the party's motivation.
In social contracts of this sort, the description of the parties (their motivation, the conditions under which they choose) does all the work: once we have fully specified the reasoning of one party, the contract has been identified.
Obama recognizes that the devoted environmentalists who represent a critical portion of the Democratic party base need some motivation to turn out for him in the fall.
