Tipping point

Examples of Tipping point in the following topics:

• Party Realignments, Dealignments, and Tipping

  • For social scientists, this point is important, since it helps to provide an objective sociological basis for the theory.
  • Tipping refers to the end of an era and the crystallization of another.
  • Tipping refers to the end of an era and the crystallization of another.
  • More specifically, tipping point is a point in time when a group —or a large number of group members— rapidly and dramatically changes its behavior by widely adopting a previously rare practice.
  • He called that moment the "tipping point".

• Tax Loopholes and Lowered Taxes

  • When tips, side-jobs, cash receipts, and barter income is not reported it is illegal cheating, because no tax is paid by individuals.

• The Legislative Function

  • So-called 'signing statements' are one way in which a president can "tip the balance of power between Congress and the White House a little more in favor of the executive branch," according to one account.

• Interventionism

  • The Lend Lease Act allowed the United States to tip-toe from isolationism while still remaining militarily neutral.

• The PATRIOT and Freedom Acts

  • However, supporters of the amendment such as Heather Mac Donald, a fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor to the New York City Journal, expressed the belief that the act was necessary because the temporary delay in notification of a search order could stop terrorists from tipping off counterparts under investigation.

• The End of Affirmative Action?

  • The University of Michigan used a 150-point scale to rank applicants, with 100 points needed to guarantee admission.
  • The University gave underrepresented ethnic groups, including African-Americans, Hispanics, and Native Americans an automatic 20-point bonus on the scale.
  • As a point of comparison, a perfect SAT score was worth 12 points.
  • After being denied admission, Jennifer Gratz filed suit on the basis that the University of Michigan's point system discriminated against her on the basis of race, as she belonged to none of the specified minority groups.
  • The Supreme Court held that the university could still consider race in college admissions, but that the University of Michigan's ranking and point system was unconstitutional because it gave an automatic point increase to all racial minorities rather than considering what a specific individual could contribute to campus life.

• The Act of Defining: Conceptual Engineering

  • The concept specified by the definition is a useful one, but in order to use it conveniently you need a word with which to point to it.
  • One option is to invent a new word to point to the definition, or get someone else to do so.
  • One of my students, Doug Chamberlin, kindly invented a new word to point to my definition: coopetition.
  • The point to be emphasized by including variation four, $D \rightarrow X + Y$ , however, is that the act of defining is one which is in pursuit of a goal, and that this kind of decision has side effects.

• Social Power

  • Diagramming the other individual's satisfaction with the aid of a "number line", point 0 marks that individual's satisfaction in the absence of any action at all on our part:
  • Our action reducing his satisfaction down to point L, which we will call a sanction, is social power in the following sense: He may be willing to take an action desired by us, an action which will increase our satisfaction, if we will refrain from the action which would lower his satisfaction down to point L.
  • On the diagram, such an action increases the other person's satisfaction from point 0 to point M.

• Authorization and Appropriation

  • Points of order also prohibit certain provisions in appropriations measures.
  • Meanwhile, the aforementioned language prohibitions in appropriations bills sometimes gets passed in the bills either because no one raised a point of order or the House and Senate waived the rules.

• Watching Out for Metaphors

  • The distinctive focal point of political science is government, and the distinctive thing about the organization we call government isthat it can legitimately threaten sanctions against all individuals who violate its laws.
  • Up to a point, the analogies expressed by metaphors can be useful, but beyond that point they can be extremely misleading.
  • Another way of stating this point is that there is a conflict between national freedom and maximizing individual freedom.