substantive policy
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsubstantiveandpolicy
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substantive
adjective
uk/səbˈstæn.tɪv/us/səbˈstæn.t̬ɪv/
important, serious, or related to ...
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policy
noun[C]
uk/ˈpɒl.ə.si/us/ˈpɑː.lə.si/
a set of ideas or a plan of what to do in particular situations that has been agreed to officially by a group of people, a business organization, a government, or a ...
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Table 3 reports the salience that each party was judged by the experts to attach to each of the tensubstantivepolicydimensions.
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Second, advocacy groups choose venues not only to advancesubstantivepolicygoals but also to serve organizational needs, or reinforce organizational identities.
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Democratic governance refers to a process of transforming public preferences intosubstantivepolicythrough democratic institutions.
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The threesubstantivepolicydimensions most closely correlated with the general left-right dimension were defence policy, national identity, and foreign policy.
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Financial conditionality has considerable potential for effecting procedural transfer, although examples ofsubstantivepolicytransfer by this method are harder to find.
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To answer such questions will require comparative studies across a wide range of advocacy groups who are working in differentsubstantivepolicyarenas.
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It is not immediately obvious how to move beyond such informal validation of cross-country comparisons of party positions on anchoredsubstantivepolicyscales.
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Other provisions specifically empowered judges to makesubstantivepolicydecisions without providing clear instructions to those judges.
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Second, advocacy groups choose venues not only to advancesubstantivepolicygoals but also to serve organizational needs and identities.
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Third, they strengthen governmental access to information and expertise, both aboutsubstantivepolicy issues and about political opportunities and constraints in the international arena.
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This study of the food stamp program, however, reveals that caps are more likely to engender procedural complexities andsubstantivepolicybias.
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The first view is that the courts havesubstantivepolicypreferences and behave as constrained policy advocates, as most models assume.
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Significantly, they objected precisely because it took away the discretion of the courts to decide important issues withsubstantivepolicyconsequences.
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Mechanistic expenditure ceilings do not dissolvesubstantivepolicytensions we do not wish to confront, nor can they mandate that we confront them in a careful and rational way.
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As there is good reason to believe that distribution of cabinet portfolios has importantsubstantivepolicyimplications,45 this rule seems to reflect and shape policy influence distribution.
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Venue shopping can be a means of attracting allies, shaping a group's public image, as well as a way to achievesubstantivepolicygoals.
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Our claim, therefore, is that oursubstantivepolicyscales are more likely to form the basis of valid inter-country comparisons than an un-anchored general left-right scale.
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Whereas a quasi-judicial agency established a policy doctrine on the basis of its case by case approach,substantivepolicychanges resulted from legislative action with a quasi-legislative agency.
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Financial conditionality has considerable potential for effecting procedural transfer, although robust examples ofsubstantivepolicytransfer by this method are the exception rather than the rule.
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It is critical to emphasize that we do not assume that the same numerical position on this scale implies the samesubstantivepolicyposition in different countries.
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