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Turkey’s current struggles raise important questions about the appropriate relationship between
bureaucrats
and elected officials in a pluralist democracy.
In the 1990’s, military-backed secularist governments struck back, attempting to purge religious
bureaucrats
and military leaders: those who did not consume alcohol, or whose family members wore headscarves, were immediately suspected.
To be sure, this does not mean that there were no coup attempts by members of the military in the past or cases of corruption by politicians and
bureaucrats.
Individual citizens should be free to live according to their beliefs; but an unaccountable theological vision must not be allowed to shape their behavior as civil servants and
bureaucrats.
Governments, they believe, are run by crooks, so tie their hands;
bureaucrats
are beholden to rent-seeking private agents, so ensure non-discretion and apply uniform taxes and incentives; domestic political systems cannot be trusted, so import laws and institutions from abroad; external influences are always more benign than domestic ones, so ensure maximum openness to international trade and investment; reformers have a limited "honeymoon period," so implement reforms fast.
Even though 19 of NATO’s 26 members also belong to the EU, leaders and
bureaucrats
in most of these countries have been unwilling to back the commitment of their troops with the economic resources needed.
In a recent survey by the anti-corruption watchdog group Transparency International, 54% of Indian respondents said that they had paid bribes in the last two years, in interactions with police, bureaucrats, and even educational institutions.
Broadband LiberationNEW DELHI – In July, I was among 30 men and women from around the world – government ministers, bureaucrats, technologists, and strategic thinkers – who gathered at the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) in Geneva to discuss how broadband can transform the world for the better.
This simple rule, largely followed in Eastern Europe in the socialist days, is also popular among European Union
bureaucrats
in Brussels today.
In today’s China, the overwhelming majority of
bureaucrats
like the status quo and have enough resources to protect themselves.
And, although Hu can barely hide his mediocrity, the
bureaucrats
are unconcerned.
He had sought to take advantage of the Beijing Olympics to give the foreign media unprecedented freedom, but the
bureaucrats
succeeded in reversing his decision.
The earthquake, together with the media transparency that accompanied it, has made the
bureaucrats
more accountable.
Bureaucrats
must not be allowed to spend the huge donations collected and state relief funds allotted in an arbitrary manner.
Rather than preventing monopolization and restraint of trade, as the theory goes, antitrust regulation in the “new economy” is a new face of the old “industrial policy,” allowing
bureaucrats
to manipulate economic outcomes and favor companies dearer to them than the consumers’ choice.
Capital markets can get the allocation of investment badly wrong, but governments are likely to get it wrong even worse, and the incentives to corrupt
bureaucrats
do need to be kept as low as possible.
The public also knows that
bureaucrats
will use any tactic to ensure inertia, and hence their own survival.
In short,
bureaucrats
do everything they can to force the government to sit on its hands.
So the Russia that George W. Bush will visit is one of post-revolutionary economic stabilization, accompanied by a reactionary struggle against central authority - a struggle waged not by Russia's regions, but by the state's own
bureaucrats.
The draft constitution completed last month has raised serious concerns, as it places excessive checks on political parties and politicians, while giving appointed
bureaucrats
and judges the power to overrule policy decisions by elected officials.
Trading firms need to bribe customs
bureaucrats.
Bribes are merely payments for the
bureaucrats'
signatures.
But even in France, where the best and the brightest become bureaucrats, the civil servants are continuously caught taking bribes.
In places with a more normal civil service, including most of Europe, Asia, Latin America and Africa, bribing
bureaucrats
is a way of life.
If you cannot catch
bureaucrats
taking bribes, and if you cannot make them honest, take away the power they abuse.
Free securities markets will enable firms to raise private capital, and will destroy the lever that
bureaucrats
have over firms because they allocate credits.
It is none too soon to accelerate reforms, since the
bureaucrats
are busying expanding their power and incomes.
The lesson here is to fight corruption, market reforms must move faster than the
bureaucrats.
Bureaucrats
are sure to fight them tooth and nail, and will have allies at the top levels of government.
Brazil’s experience offers three important lessons for nations implementing renewable energy initiatives: (1) government policies must be consistent, simple, and long-lasting, providing assurance to would-be entrepreneurs that they can invest for the long haul; (2) picking winners, the familiar weakness of overenthusiastic bureaucrats, must be kept to a minimum; and (3) the state must have the discipline to dismantle subsidies when the need for them has passed.
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