Policy Theory Book

Volume 5

 

WHAT’S NEW & HOW TO USE THIS BOOK        8

 

PART ONE : ARGUMENT STATUS            9

 

Conditionality

Conditionality Bad 2AC         11

Conditionality Bad 2AR/1AR Overview       12

Conditionality Bad 1AR – A2 : Negation Theory     13

Conditionality Bad 1AR – A2 : Best Policy Option / Rational Decision     14

Conditionality Bad 1AR – A2 : No Different Than Disadvantages  15

Conditionality Bad 1AR – A2 : No Different Than Topicality         16

Conditionality Bad 1AR – A2 : Most Real World    17

Conditionality Bad 1AR – A2 : Time Skew Inevitable         18

Conditionality Bad 1AR – A2 : No Time Skew (1AC Checks)        19

Conditionality Bad 1AR – A2 : 2NR Will Be Consistent / Pick One           20

Conditionality Bad 1AR – A2 : No Time Skew (Answer Theory Checks)   21

Conditionality Bad 1AR – A2 : Reject the Argument Not the Team            22

Conditionality Bad 1AR – A2 : No Time Skew (Permutations Check)        23

Conditionality Bad 1AR – A2 : Conditionality Key to PICs 24

Conditionality Bad 1AR – A2 : Increases Strategic Thinking          25

Conditionality Good 2NC      26

Conditionality Good 2NC – A2: 2AC Time Skew    27

Conditionality Good 2NC - A2 : 2AC Strategy Skew / Contradictions        28

Conditionality Good 2NC - A2 : Not Reciprocal      29

Conditionality Good 2NC - A2 : Infinitely Regressive         30

 

Dispositionality

Dispositionality Bad 2AC      31

Dispositionality Bad 2AR/1AR Overview     32

Dispositionality Bad 1AR - A2: Straight Turn It / Like Any Argument       33

Dispositionality Good 2NC    34

Dispositionality Good 2NC – A2 : Strategy Skew    35

Dispositionality Good 2NC – A2 : Time Skew         36

 

Unconditionality

Unconditionality Bad 2AC     37

Unconditionality Good 2AC  38

 

PART TWO: TOPICALITY AND SPECIFICATION ARGUMENTS           39

 

Shells / Frontlines 

Vagueness 1NC          41

Vagueness 2AC          42

Agent Specification (ASPEC) 1NC   43

Agent Specification (ASPEC) 2AC   44

Funding Specification (F-SPEC) 1NC           45

Funding Specification (F-SPEC) 2AC           46

Enforcement Specification (E-SPEC) 1NC   47

Enforcement Specification (E-SPEC) 2AC   48

‘As Per’ Bad 1NC       49

‘As Per’ Good 2AC    50

 

Definitions

Dictionary Definitions Good 51

Dictionary Definitions Bad    52

Field Context Good    53

Field Context Bad      54

Legal Definitions Good          55

Legal Definitions Bad            56

“Common Person” Definition Good  57

“Common Person” Definition Bad    58

 

Standards

Grammar Good           59

Grammar Bad 60

Limits Good   61

Limits Bad      62

Bi-Directionality Bad 63

Bi-Directionality Good          64

Effects Topicality Bad           65

Effects Topicality Good         66

Extra Topicality Bad  67

Extra Topicality Good            68

Framer’s Intent Good 69

Framer’s Intent Bad   70

Brightline Good          71

Brightline Bad            72

Probabalism Bad        73

Probabalism Good      74

 

Weighing Mechanisms

Depth Outweighs Breadth      75

Breadth Outweighs Depth      76

Competing Interpretations Good / Reasonability Bad          77

Competing Interpretations Bad / Reasonability Good          78

 

Voters

Education is a Privileged Voter         79

Jurisdiction is a Privileged Voter      80

Ground is a Privileged Voter 81

Fairness is a Privileged Voter            82

T is an RVI     83

T is Not an RVI          84

 

Mitigating Factors

Literature/Clash/Discourse Checks Abuse    85

A2: Literature/ Clash / Disclosure Checks Abuse     86

A2: Including Our Affirmative Enhances Education            87

A2: Err Aff on Topicalty        88

 

PART THREE: COUNTER-PLANS  89

 

General Counter-Plans

2NC Counter-Plans Bad 2AC 91

2NC Counter-Plans Good 1NR          92

Agent Counter-Plans Bad 2AC          93

Agent Counter-Plans Good 2NC        94

Conditioned Fiat Bad 95

Conditioned Fiat Good           96

Consultation Counter-Plan Bad  2AC            97

Consultation Counter-Plan Good  2AC         98

Counter-Plans / Negative Fiat Bad 2AC        99

Counter-Plans / Negative Fiat Good 2NC     100

Extra/ Artificially Competitive Counter-Plans Good 2NC   101

Extra/ Artificially Competitive Counter-Plans Bad 2AC     102

PICs Bad 2AC 103

PICs Good 2NC          104

International Counter-Plans Bad 2AC           105

International Counter-Plans Good 2NC         106

Multiple Actor Fiat Bad 2AC 107

Multiple Actor Fiat Good 2NC          108

Multiple Counter-Plans Bad 2AC      109

Multiple Counter-Plans Good 2NC   110

Multiple International Agents Bad 2AC        111

Multiple International Agents Good 2NC     112

Object of the Resolution Fiat Bad 2AC         113

Object of the Resolution Fiat Good 2NC       114

Private Actor Fiat Good 2NC 115

Private Actor Fiat Bad 2AC   116

Topical Counter-Plans Good 2NC     117

Topical Counter-Plans Bad 2AC        118

Utopian Fiat Bad 2AC            119

Utopian Fiat Good 2AC         120

 

Specific Counter-Plans

Administrative / Bureaucratic Compliance Fiat Bad            121

Administrative / Bureaucratic Compliance Fiat Good          122

Courts Counter-Plans Bad 2AC         123

Courts Counter-Plans Good 2NC       124

Delay Counter-Plan Good 2NC          125

Delay Counter-Plan Bad 2AC            126

Executive Order Counter-Plan Good 2NC     127

Executive Order Counter-Plan Bad 2AC       128

Lower Court Compliance Fiat Bad    129

Lower Court Compliance Fiat Good  130

Referendum Counter-Plan Bad 2AC  131

Referendum Counter-Plan Good  2NC          132

States Counter-Plan Bad 2AC            133

States Counter-Plan Good 2NC         134

Test Case Fiat Good   135

Test Case Fiat Bad     136

UN Counter-Plans Bad 2NC  137

UN Counter-Plans Good 2NC            138

Veto-Cheato Counter-Plans Bad 2AC           139

Veto-Cheato Counter-Plans Good 2NC         140

 

Counter-Plan Competition

Text Comp Good / Functional Competition Bad       141

Text Comp Bad  / Functional Competition Good      142

Plan-Plan is Good       143

Plan-Plan is Bad         144

 

PART FOUR: PERMUTATIONS      145

 

           Intrinsic Permutations

Intrinsic Permutations Good 2AC      146

Intrinsic Permutations Bad 2NC        147

Conditionality Justifies Intrinsicness 2AC    148

Conditionality Does Not Justify Intrinsicness 2NC  149

PICs Justify Intrinsicness       150

PICs Do Not Justify Intrinsicness      151

Counter-Plans Justify Intrinsicness   152

Counter-Plans Do Not Justify Intrinsicness  153

2NC Counter-Plans Justify Intrinsicness       154

2NC Counter-Plans Do Not Justify Intrinsicness      155

 

Severence Permutations

Severence Permutations Good 2AC   156

Severence Permutations Bad 2NC     157

Kritiks Justify Severance / Discursive Severance Good       158

Kritiks Do Not Justify Severance / Discursive Severance Bad         159

 

Timeframe Permutations

Timeframe Permutations Good 2AC 160

Timeframe Permutations Bad 2NC   161

 

Multiple Permutations

Multiple Perms Bad 2NC       162

Multiple Perms Good 2AC    163

 

Status of Permutations

Advocating Perms Good 2AC            164

Advocating Perms Bad 2NC  165

 

PART FIVE : DISADVANTAGES    166

 

Politics Disads Bad    167

Politics Disads Good  168

Normal Means = Top of the Docket  169

Normal Means = Bottom of the Docket        170

 

PART SIX: KRITIKS 171

 

Policy/Fiat Framework

Fiat Good        172

Fiat Good - Coverstone          173

Fiat Good – Rawls      174

A2 : Discourse & Kritiks Excluded / Irrelevant in You Framework 175

A2 : Real Wold Education / Kritik Good For Activism        176

A2 : Predictability is A Practice / Fiat is Arbitrary  177

A2 : Resolved is On the Left Side of the Colon        178

A2 : Your Ground is ____      179

A2 : Encourages Racist and Sexist Language           180

A2 : Mitchell  181

A2 : Kulynych            182

 

Kritik/No Fiat Framework

Fiat Bad          183

Fiat Bad - Mitchell     184

Fiat Bad - Kulynych   185

A2 : Education            186

A2 : Undermines Aff Ground 187

A2 : Can’t Debate Politics     188

A2 : Predictability / Predictable Ground       189

A2 : Not In the Literature       190

A2 : Need Real World Skills 191

A2 : Do It Outside The Round           192

A2 : Undermines Clash          193

A2 : Topic Specific Education           194

A2 : Undermines Strategic/Critical Thinking           195

A2 : Allows Advocating Truisms      196

A2 : Allows Bi-Directionality           197

A2 : Coverstone          198

 

Multiple Frameworks

Multiple Frameworks (Kritik & CP) Bad      199

Multiple Frameworks (Kritik & CP) Good   200

 

Kritik Alternatives

No Text to the Alternative Bad          201

No Text to the Alternative Good       202

Plan Inclusive Kritiks Good   203

Plan Inclusive Kritiks Bad     204

Vague Alternatives Bad         205

Vague Alternatives Good       206

 

PART SEVEN: VOTERS       207

 

Reject the Team Not the Argument   208

Reject the Argument Not the Team   209

Potential Abuse Good 210

In-Round Abuse Good            211

Time Skew is a Voter 212

Time Skew is Not a Voter      213

Strategy Skew is a Voter        214

Strategy Skew is Not a Voter 215

Abuse is A Voter        216

Abuse is Not A Voter 217

 

PART EIGHT: META-DEBATE & MISC    218

 

Speed Good (1/2)       219

Speed Good (2/2)       220

Speed Bad       221

Author Advocate Good          222

Author Advocate Bad 223

Modifying Evidence Good     224

Modifying Evidence Bad       225