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Yet parallels exist: without the checks and balances of sound domestic institutions, the global winds of political liberalization unsettle former authoritarian regimes, much as economic globalization wrecked havoc on weak financial institutions.
For example, a decision needs to be made as to whether the transfers go to each citizen or each household (a yearly check for each person in the family may have undesirable consequences on fertility as parents have children to collect checks).
What is needed are clear checks on arbitrary rule, and transparency in decision-making.
More generally, military interference with civilian politics, for any reason, weakens the processes, institutions, and checks on state power that make liberal democracy work.
What makes allies indispensable to an effective national-security policy is the ability of like-minded nations to provide the reality checks without which a fallible superpower is, as we have regretfully seen, unable to keep its balance on swiftly evolving and treacherous international terrain.
Harvard’s Kenneth Rogoff dubbed the UK’s reliance on a simple-majority referendum to end a 55-year-old partnership “Russian roulette for republics,” because the procedure did not include the checks and balances that such a consequential decision should have required.
For starters, Eastern Europe lacks the tradition of checks and balances that has long safeguarded Western democracy.
Beyond the issue of money, there is the problem of a system of checks and balances run amok, leading to governmental paralysis.
The opposition countered with the argument that a coalition government would counter the country’s deep political polarization, while helping to establish stronger checks and balances.
The second is the one preferred by political scientists and European visionaries: greater fiscal union among the 17 eurozone members, or, in blunt terms, German willingness to do for the eurozone what it did for eastern Germany – namely, write large checks for years to come.
This would horrify America’s founders, who regarded direct democracy as a precursor to mob rule, and established a system of checks and balances precisely to prevent such an outcome.
Confronted with daunting obstacles and a disloyal opposition, Funes may well decide to cater to FMLN hard-liners and pursue his reform agenda with no patience for democratic checks and balances, as other leftist leaders in Latin America, such as Ecuador’s Rafael Correa and Bolivia’s Evo Morales, have done.
But it is precisely the absence of effective checks on the exercise of power that encourages and sustains rampant corruption in the first place.
For strength unalloyed by checks and balances – and by a capacity for self-critical reflection about the rightness and wrongness of state action – can be unnerving.
He, and the people he appointed, created an environment of secrecy, a system in which the normal checks on the accuracy of information were removed.
That model’s term limits and system of peer review for high-level decision-making has provided the checks necessary to prevent a repeat of Mao-era catastrophes such as the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution.
Throughout the crisis, it has been widely assumed – at least so far – that the eurozone core would remain solid, and would continue to write the checks for the periphery’s distressed governments and banks.
The second financial rule that privileges repos is that money-market funds must keep their portfolios extremely liquid, because their customers draw checks on their deposits.
And policymakers in advanced economies should preserve and apply well-known checks and balances, to keep the project-selection playing field level, and to permit monitoring implementation from start to finish.
The admission that securities analysts deliberately skewed their research to attract investment-banking customers shows how easily the proper functioning of checks and balances in corporate governance can break down-even in the most advanced system-leaving minority shareholders at risk.
In designing the US Constitution, the founders’ goal was not to ensure harmonious government, but to constrain political power with a system of checks and balances that made it difficult to exercise.
Bangladesh's original sin may have been its hurried constitution of 1972, which assigned extravagant powers, with few checks and balances, to the prime minister, a position to be assumed by the country's revered founding father, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
As checks and balances were eliminated, what emerged was a shrunken democracy in which an authoritarian prime minister assumed the autocratic presidency's overweening power.
But the collection of payroll taxes from tens of millions of workers and the writing of tens of millions of pension checks is the kind of routine, semi-automatic task that government can do well.
Hu wants nothing to do with increasing political participation or outside checks on communist party power.
Western democracies have prided themselves on institutional checks and balances, but obviously these mechanisms did not work during the crisis or the preceding boom.
A presidency that, having dismantled traditional checks and balances, is never compelled to provide coherent reasons for its policies, is soon likely to have few coherent reasons for its policies.
Investors will know that Colombia is not a one-man show, and that the political system’s vaunted institutionalization and effective checks and balances are real.
The absence of political checks and institutional mechanisms for public scrutiny has also encouraged abuse of power and high levels of corruption, contributing to high inequality, arbitrary land grabs, unsafe working conditions, food safety scares, and toxic pollution, among other problems.
At the moment, there are few, if any, checks on debt-fueled investment by SOEs or politically connected firms.
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