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The case for returning fiscal responsibility to national authorities is also strong – and not only because centralized fiscal authority has proved to be so inefficient.
In an environment where power and property are inseparable and all government institutions are emasculated, a major transfer of authority at the top may lead to violent redistribution.
Either way, it is almost universally understood that the transfer of presidential authority is masterminded at the top and endorsed at the ballot box.
But military dominance alone is unable to confer authority, as the Afghan quagmire reminds us every day.
While both the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights contain de facto prohibitions on capital punishment, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) recognizes a state’s authority to retain the practice.
Given that providing the state with any amount of authority over the media also carries risks, the group advocates EU oversight over national authorities – regulation of the regulators.
Women need to know that they can reach positions of genuine authority, even in domains from which they have historically been excluded – and they need encouragement to get there.
But he did unwittingly remind many Americans that the US Constitution delegates substantial political authority to states, cities, and individual citizens.
Similarly, whereas an ever-expanding bureaucracy encumbered the Soviet economy, China’s economy benefits from the decentralization of considerable economic authority to local governments.
Politicization of Islam is displacing the authority of Islam's religious classes, the ulema .
Who has the authority to interpret religious texts?
So lay people decide what Islam does and does not mean, without the authority of religious schools and specialized training.
With the EU's internal borders reduced to purely administrative boundaries, this task has passed to institutions that wield immense preemptive authority over member states.
In Russia, the Revolution of the 1990s has clearly entered its stabilization phase: there is broad acceptance of the market and private property; the period of feeble state authority and weak government is giving way to enhanced state power as an exhausted society allows today’s rulers wider latitude for political maneuver.
The country also advanced down the road of fiscal federalism: channeling all of VAT into the federal budget, and the income tax to the regions, makes for a sensible system of distributing budgetary resources among the tiers of authority.
The bank knew a bit, the doctor knew a bit, the tax authority knew a bit, but they did not all talk to one another.
The participating states established a common central bank, but they explicitly refused to surrender the right to tax their citizens to a common authority.
The Imperial Rescript of Soldiers and Sailors of 1882 set out the ideology of the "family state," which framed hierarchical social relations based on authority, blood ties, and age.
Scotland, for example, has much local authority, yet will vote on independence in September.
We may be in the early stages of reversing the trend toward increases in the size, scope, and centralization of government, with authority devolving on more localized environments, closer to where people live and work.
In Central America, they continuously fragment into ever smaller units that fight for insignificant positions of authority and irrelevant representation.
All that is needed is a major reserve currency that is not issued by a national authority.
For weeks, Republicans in the House of Representatives threatened to keep the government shuttered – thereby preventing it from extending its borrowing authority beyond the October 17 deadline – in order to challenge laws that were enacted by Congress as a whole and upheld by the Supreme Court.
Starting next year, when it takes over authority for bank supervision, the ECB will review the quality of banks’ assets.
Current owners will resist to the end any dilution of their control; and no national authority is likely to admit that their national “champions” lack a plausible path to financial viability.
Despite his apparent grip on most levers of power, Hu lacks the authority of a Deng Xiaoping, and thus must strike a balance among the CCP’s major factions regarding the division of spoils at the top.
President Barack Obama now might get so-called fast-track negotiating authority from Congress.
May they never forget that Israel’s fate is too serious of a matter to be used as a pretext for an impulsive, uncultured adventurer to demonstrate his authority or supposed deal-making talents.
But it has no formal authority to mandate a common approach to capital (the G-20 should give it one).
Many remain convinced that China’s government – which wields with the world’s largest foreign-exchange reserves and virtually unchecked authority – would be able to prevent a major financial crisis.
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