Developing and institutionalizing cross-sectoral approaches to sustainable land use remains a crucial, yet politically contested, objective in global sustainability governance.
It was Gosplan's task to "translate" the politically determined objectives into a consistent set of plan targets.
Not so much a group, al-Qaida represents a movement that links itself to history, rather than a campaign that pursues politically achievable objectives.
This knowledge can help regulators aiming to meet politically decided objectives through regulation.
A new experimental study [pdf] finds that opinionated reporting is better at motivating the politically unengaged than objective reporting.
Fortunately, political independents hold the balance of power between partisan Democrats and Republicans and at some point, effectively communicated, politically neutral and objective science should prevail in the public debate.
Without a clear and politically viable policy objective for jobs -- unlike, say, banning high-capacity magazines to address mass shootings -- the administration is likely to continue the piecemeal approach to economic recovery that it took for most of the president's first term, observers say.
In one 1988 poll, "voters were asked several questions that were politically relevant, but had objective, factual answers," such as did unemployment go up or down under Ronald Reagan?
The elucidation continues through a reconsideration of the question of presuppositions of accounting, and the issue of the politicization of accounting: it is concluded that accounting has no philosophical presuppositions, and that the difference between desirably objective and politically distorted accounts essentially lies in the practices carried out in the name of each.
Of course, no textbook is perfectly objective or politically neutral, but we owe future generations our best effort to keep what we call history free from the unsettling influence of partisan spin.
