contestability
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- noun
- /kənˈtɛstəˌbɪlɪti/
- Formal
- While Lindblom emphasizes the contestability and variation of actors' values, interests, or "ends," he also refers to the potential for a degree of overlap between them.
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Watch on YouTubeSo that's what I mean by about contestability, that we, we need to have a discursive space that's contested so that error correction can take place.
- So that's what I mean by about contestability, that we, we need to have a discursive space that's contested so that error correction can take place.
Examples
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The contestability of the election results prompted many to question the integrity of the voting process.
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To identify such differences, Jahyeong Koo and I constructed an econometric model of the market contestability of the Argentine commercial banking system and designed it to test for structural breaks in performance at various times (Gruben and Koo 1997).
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So contestability, we are in industry with very large fixed costs or very large network scientists.
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Normally, I would have a 120-day contestability period, but I'm gonna waive my rights in that regard.
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Where school performance is systematically assessed in these countries, the primary purpose is often not to support contestability of public services or market mechanisms in the allocation of resources.
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So that's what I mean by about contestability, that we, we need to have a discursive space that's contested so that error correction can take place.
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In contemporary political science, the question of the concepts and criteria to use in evaluating governance remains very much open, not least in light of post-positivists' emphasis on the contestability of values that provide the basis for any evaluation.
Academic text (2016) -
He anticipates the later post-positivist turn in emphasizing the contestability of the norms and understandings on which policy evaluation is necessarily based.
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The present moment is characterized by a heightened interest in multicultural and intercultural issues, and the inherent contestability of museum exhibitions and collections is bound to open heated debate on past and present choices made in collecting and exhibiting.
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The contestability of ideas in a debate can lead to more nuanced discussions.
Antonyms
How Contestable
Surface Forms
Morphology
contestability = contestable (transparent) = contest + able + ity
Formed from 'contestable' + '-ity'; the meaning ('the state of being open to challenge') follows directly from 'contest' → 'contestable' → 'contestability'.
Etymology
Contestability comes from contest and the simple word test, which mean 'to try' or 'question', plus the ending -able, which means 'can be'. So contestability is the quality of being 'able to be challenged' or 'open to competition'.