It asks the following questions: Is there public demand or need for the review, giving scrutiny a powerful mandate to demand change from policy-makers and service providers?
Though we can readily show that none of the reportedly "positive" four non-protocol outcome variables stands up to scrutiny, the primary mandate of the RIAT enterprise is to reaffirm essential practices in randomised controlled trials, so we did not include these variables in our efficacy analysis.
In spring 2012, and under pressure from student mobilisations, your government withdrew the higher education bill and then, with no parliamentary mandate or scrutiny, proceeded to implement the higher education white paper anyway.
WASHINGTON The Obama administration's decision to mandate extra scrutiny including full-body pat downs for people flying into the United States from 14 mostly Muslim countries provoked criticism from foreign officials and skepticism from some security experts that the measures would be effective.
Vladeck said then that special counsel regulations don't raise the same issues as independent counsels, which came under scrutiny for going outside their mandate and allowing another branch of government ― the legislative branch ― to oversee the workings of the executive branch.
There is also a mandate to apply "special scrutiny to those foreign nationals seeking to enter the United States from terror-sponsoring countries or from regions associated with Islamic terrorism".
And all of this is happening at a time when contractor billing rates are coming under scrutiny by those in a Congress with a mandate to cut spending.
"Indeed, the very constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act is cloaked in uncertainty, as both the individual mandate to procure health insurance as well as the jurisdictional mandate to establish an exchange may not survive scrutiny by the Supreme Court," he wrote.
An alternative and likely better strategy is to describe such triggers in more abstract terms to give the regulator a clear mandate of when they are expected to increase scrutiny.
The New Republic's Jonathan Cohn, for instance, argues that a broccoli mandate might be slightly too specific to survive constitutional scrutiny.
