Sentence examples for rational policymaking from inspiring English sources

We always allow rational policymaking to trump interest.

"This is yet more evidence of the Conservatives' alarming embrace of petty chauvinism over rational policymaking".

I think the other parties are much more attuned to the idea that they are representing certain interests and they're in office to defend those interests – even, frankly, when it bumps up against rational policymaking.

Cleggista policy wonks argue that the Cable-Willetts deal, one of 50 funding models sweated over by officials, is "a masterclass in rational policymaking", one which addresses concerns of the four stakeholder groups.

Allowing this anti-immigrant activism to override rational policymaking, however, comes with serious consequences -- like racial profiling.

In The Big Thirst, author Charles Fishman notes, "When water becomes a crisis, it often ends up being about emotion as much as science or rational policymaking".

"But the changing perceptions set up a dangerous game of chicken that could spin out of control if unrealistic expectations and the desire to pander to domestic audiences trumps rational collective policymaking in one or both countries".

Ironically, the man who pioneered a highly rational approach to policymaking came to conclude that it is empathy for one's enemy that provides the only chance of beating them.

Like other HSPA-reports, the DHCPR is fulfilling several functions in the rational model of policymaking: agenda-setting (problem recognition), policy formulation (proposal of solutions), decision-making (choice of solution), policy implementation (putting solution into practice), and policy evaluation (monitoring the results) [ 18].

Cognitive barriers include: spatial horizon (state/local centred, absolute notion of space); issue horizon (sectoral silos of regulatory responsibility); dynamic horizon (trend continuity); and, ethical horizon (policymaking as rational project, bounded by invariable outputs).

This provides one possible explanation why the process of policymaking might be less a rational learning process, such as the one described in Buera et al. (2011), but instead an attempt to reveal intentions (which by their very nature are hard to verify) and a search for culprits.