Voorbeelden van tinkering

• Unless its contingent and intersubjective aspects are recognized, it is unlikely to produce good intelligence, regardless of its susceptibility to political tinkering.

• Here, legislators are likely to anticipate its behaviour and the degree of ex post tinkering that a specific policy could be subject to.

• The democratic cause advances through motivated and cumulative tinkering with the arrangements underlying such schemes.

• Are they at the level of invention or of 'tinkering'?

• If electoral tinkering could not be performed by means of emergency powers and federal intervention, an absolute majority of electoral votes was not likely.

• Some regimes, of course, prove more successful at this task than others through constitutional and legislative tinkering, judicial manipulation, and tolerating legislative bodies and trials.

• All parties had access to this research, and minor tinkering has taken place with phraseology in the new edition.

• The answer is negotiable; but must be stated and addressed if tinkering is to amount to science.