Nick, Ollie, Anu
Green
What is Nick's Favorite Color
What is the Monopoly on Violence
What is the Toulmin Model
The range of policies politically acceptable to the mainstream population at a given time?
What is the overton window?
This international organization was founded in 1945 to promote peace and security among nations.
What is the United Nations
the legislation designed to prevent monopolies and promote competition in the marketplace?
What is Anti-trust law?
Pho
What is nick's favorite food
The analytical framework that examines how various social identities such as race, gender, class, and sexuality create overlapping systems of discrimination
What is Intersectionality
A hypothetical scenario used to explore outcomes different from those that actually occurred, often employed to understand causation in historical events and debates
The individual assigned to help you generate and practice individual skills while at camp
Who is your mentor
the current holder of a political office or position.
What is an incumbent?
The global financial institution founded in 1944 to provide financial assistance and advice to developing countries.
What is the IMF?
the process by which two or more companies, often of similar size or sector combine, to form a single potentially new entity
What is a merger?
An Apple Watch
What product did nick initially intend to buy before the headphones?
The range of policies politically acceptable to the mainstream population at a given time?
What is the overton window?
argument based on moral, ethical, or philosophical grounds rather than on the feasibility or practical outcomes of a policy or action?
What is a principle?
what is Socrates Hour?
The 1964 landmark U.S. legislation that outlawed major forms of discrimination against racial, ethnic, national, and religious minorities, and women.
the international relations theory that argues that states are inherently self-interested in an anarchic global order
What is realism?
What is a market situation where there is only one buyer for a particular product or service, giving them significant control over prices and terms?
What is a monopsony?
A member of the 2023 WSDC World Championship team
Who is Ollie
The concept that unlimited tolerance can lead to the disappearance of tolerance if tolerated groups are not reciprocally tolerant
What is Popper's Paradox of Tolerance
The first and last minute of each WSD speech, wherein participants cannot receive or offer POIs
What is protected time?
Who is Miha Andric?
The doctrine stating that the U.S. would support countries resisting communism during the Cold War.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
What is the dominance of one state or group over others, particularly in political, economic, or cultural contexts?
What is Hegemony?
the process by which a private company offers shares to the public for the first time overseen by the Securities and Exchange Comission
What is an IPO?
Two Green Chiles
What is the number of chilies Anu can eat in a single meal
The socio-economic *theory* that critiques capitalism and advocates for a classless society where the means of production are communally owned?
What is Marxism?
The acronym commonly associated with the call that judges will deliver at the conclusion of the debate round
What is an RFD
10:30PM
When is bedcheck?
This term describes the practice of redrawing electoral district boundaries to favor a specific political party.
What is gerrymandering?
What is the policy of deliberately keeping intentions or plans unclear to create uncertainty and deter adversaries?
What is Strategic Ambiguity?
the french phrase for economic policy of minimal governmental interference in the affairs of the free market?
Laissez-Faire economics
4'11''
How tall is Anu?
The political and economic ideology that emphasizes free markets, deregulation, privatization, and a reduction in government spending -- associated with reaganism and thatcherism
What is neoliberalism?
The word used to describe a judge's personal philosophical approach to evaluating argumentation.
What is a paradigm?
Chris Theis
Who is the director of VBI?
In the US, the political system where power is divided between a central government and regional governments, each with their own responsibilities and authorities?
What is federalism?
a military alliance established in 1949 for mutual defense against then Soviet aggression.
What is NATO?
the economic standard that evaluates the well-being and benefits received by potential product purchasers, often used to assess the impact of business practices and policies
What is the consumer welfare standard?
What is Ollie's Home State
Critical perspective focusing on how capitalism and patriarchy are co-conspirators in the oppression women?
What is Marxist Feminism?
What is tabroom?
Who is Coppell?
Potential VP favorite of Kamala Harris's team, astronaut, senator, and Navy captain
Who is Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Arizona)?
organizations that are not affiliated with, directed by, or funded through any state, often playing a role in international relations and politics
What are non-state actors?
An individual who provides significant initial capital to startups or small businesses in exchange for ownership equity or convertible debt
Who are angel investors?