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-The aff should win if the hypothetical implementation of a topical plan is better than the status quo or options – the USFG should implement the plan. |
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- 2. Engagement in this resolution implies government action, which the Aff does not advocate. |
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-B. Reasons to prefer |
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-A real-world analysis of the topic is key, ignoring it kills productivity. |
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-Steinberg and Freeley 13, * David, Lecturer in Communication studies and rhetoric. Advisor to Miami Urban Debate League. Director of Debate at U Miami, Former President of CEDA. And Austin, attorney who focuses on criminal, personal injury and civil rights law, JD, Suffolk University, Argumentation and Debate, Critical Thinking for Reasoned Decision Making, 121-4 |
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-Debate is a … the following discussion. |
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- 2. Predictable limits: The topic produces a stable locus of clash, key to Neg ground, predictability, and ensuring in-depth, educational debate. |
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- 3. Topic education: Res is key to learning how to solve real-world problems. |
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- 4. Aff conditionality: Without a plan text the Aff can shift justifications for the 1AC – this disadvantages the Neg, makes the Aff a moving target. |
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- 5. Engagement with hegemonic institutions is necessary to create actual change and avoid right wing takeover. |
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-Mouffe 2009 (Chantal Mouffe is Professor of Political Theory at the Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster, “The Importance of Engaging the State”, What is Radical Politics Today?, Edited by Jonathan Pugh, pp. 233-7) |
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-In both Hardt … of radical politics. |
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- 6. The state is inevitable – policymaking is the only way to create change, all other narratives get co-opted. |
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-Coverstone 5 Alan Coverstone (masters in communication from Wake Forest, longtime debate coach) “Acting on Activism: Realizing the Vision of Debate with Pro-social Impact” Paper presented at the National Communication Association Annual Conference November 17th 2005 |
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-An important concern … in America today. |
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- 7. The role of the judge is to vote for the team with the best policy option. Prefer this because it forces both sides to make actual arguments that can be applicable in the real world. You have to transform systems from the inside out-otherwise rhetoric changes but not policies. |
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-McCormack, PhD in International Relations from the University of Westminster, 2010 |
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-(Tara, Critique, Security and Power: The political limits to emancipatory approaches, pg 59-61) |
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-In chapter 7 … of the time. |