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One answer is that domestic political dysfunction has severely handicapped the president in international negotiations.
Despite massive evidence of the widespread death, poverty, suffering, and dysfunction she and her late husband, the dictator Ferdinand Marcos, inflicted on the Philippines, the only real disappointment she has subsequently endured has been losing the last presidential election she was allowed to contest.
But governments seem unlikely to overcome their dysfunction anytime soon.
Many Americans started 2013 with high hopes that congressional leaders would overcome, even if only partly, the polarization and political dysfunction that had slowed recovery.
The resulting sense of political drift and dysfunction has been exacerbated by the poor rollout of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) – a massive, avoidable distraction that has been allowed to cast doubt on this landmark initiative.
Dysfunction was evident in even the most stable and sophisticated segments of financial markets.
The consequences extended beyond economics and finance, straining regional political arrangements, amplifying national political dysfunction, and fueling the rise of anti-establishment parties and movements.
The alternate path, onto which continued political dysfunction would push the world, leads through a thicket of parochial and uncoordinated policies to economic recession, greater inequality, and severe financial instability.
Indira Gandhi's brief "emergency rule" in the 1970's was partly the result of such institutional dysfunction.
Moreover, cancer treatment often carries serious side effects – including urinary incontinence, erectile dysfunction, and, in those who undergo radiation, inflammation of the lower rectum or bladder, as well as underreported effects like fecal incontinence – that can negatively affect patients’ quality of life.
After all, its dysfunction not only cheapens political discourse; it also delays essential legislative business.
Moreover, America’s Asian pivot is occurring at a time when its international credibility has been badly eroded by domestic political dysfunction and disappointing performance in the Middle East.
Some patients, by contrast, suffer at the opposite extreme of dysfunction.
Amid all this dysfunction, one international institution has remained somewhat above the political fray: the IMF.
Yes, it was a clear symptom of deep political dysfunction, stemming from the politicized demarcation of electoral districts and the distorting effects of America’s campaign-finance system.
This understanding means that the cure for the current dysfunction will be found at the ballot box rather than in the streets.
The fourth reflects a desire to insure the economy against congressional dysfunction.
Third, by re-balancing the financial and trading arrangements of the global economy’s participants, CFT would represent a step toward addressing its current dysfunction.
This seems even more unlikely than impeachment, unless some of Trump’s behavior – like his middle-of-the-night tweets or private rants against his aides (most recently, Attorney General Jeff Sessions) – clearly indicates neurological dysfunction or psychopathology.
Critics are trying to identify the ideas as well as the interests that were responsible for financial and economic dysfunction.
There is simply no agreement on how to address glaring problems such as America’s increasingly fragile trade deficit, or financial dysfunction in a number of emerging markets.
In this narrative, the problem is Ukraine’s political dysfunction, whereas Russia is an innocent peacemaker suffering under sanctions it does not deserve.
Default in some euro countries or political dysfunction in the US is a much more likely trigger.
Evidence of extreme dysfunction in US politics is already plain to see, reaching a low in 2011 during the debt-ceiling showdown (also in August), which cost America its AAA sovereign rating from Standard & Poor’s.
Occasionally, however, governments stage successful retreats from welfare-state dysfunction.
If Europe keeps spiraling into dysfunction, it will not be able to play a meaningful role in the future.
The longer the US obsesses over its own political dysfunction and attendant economic stagnation, the less likely it is to bear the mantle of global responsibility and leadership.
And amid all the dismay and dysfunction, some of the new plutocrats have stepped up as philanthropists to underwrite social reform.
The resulting divisiveness and dysfunction are surely bigger threats than the Fed’s tapering.
But it is important to know where devolution ends and dysfunction begins.
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