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In a recent report, Human Rights Watch documented the accumulation of executive power and the erosion of human-rights protections in Venezuela.
That changed in 2012, when Leung Chun-ying was appointed as Hong Kong’s chief executive.
For example, officials recently declared that judicial independence and the separation of powers are “colonial” legacies that should be discarded, with China’s government and Hong Kong’s chief executive, not the local courts, calling all the shots.
Adrian Nastase, the PDSR’s executive president and its candidate for prime minister, seems to lean toward reform.
His inaugural address sounded like a campaign speech; and, after taking office, a series of false statements and provocative executive orders has undercut his credibility with the center but reinforced it with his base.
A public discussion with input from the executive branch, Congress, think tanks, investigative journalists, and scholars should lay a foundation for policy.
For example, China’s bankruptcy law, enacted in 2006, required 12 years to negotiate, as factions within the Congress, the CCP, and the executive branch struggled to balance the interests of workers and creditors.
There is no provision for the Parliament to register even a moderate protest or a targeted sanction against detailed elements of the record of the European executive.
Yes, of course; but that is the only way that Parliaments have, over the centuries, ever pushed forward the frontiers of democratic power against the executive.
In Iran’s unusual power structure, President Khatami lacks full executive authority.
Its threat to enact other laws forced President Clinton to issue an executive order forbidding American oil companies from doing business with Iran.
Within weeks, the Clinton administration must decide whether to impose sanctions on a French-Russian-Malaysian consortium set to develop Iranian offshore gas fields – a multi-billion consortium originally planned by the American oil company Conoco, which was banned from participation by the executive order.
By taking actions on behalf of the company that he arbitrarily decides are "socially responsible," a corporate executive is, in effect, spending someone else's money by reducing returns to shareholders.
Should Nepal adopt a parliamentary system, an executive presidency, or some combination of the two?
The ANC’s national executive committee has debated establishing a process to secure Zuma’s resignation, which Ramaphosa supporters want within weeks.
In the US, Congress and the executive branch are locked in a stalemate.
Indeed, Hong Kong enjoys many freedoms that the rest of China lacks, including a judiciary system that is guided by British common law and independent from the executive branch.
China has yet to follow through on its second promise: that Hong Kong would elect its chief executive by “universal suffrage” by 2017.
Instead, a committee – initially comprising 800 members, but since expanded to 1,200 – selects the chief executive in accordance with the Chinese government’s wishes.
Hong Kong’s first chief executive, Tung Chee-hwa, was widely viewed as a wise choice.
Jorg Asmussen, a key member of the ECB’s executive board, wrote to the negotiators that countries should be allowed to exceed the 0.5%-of-GDP limit for deficitsonly in times of “natural catastrophes and serious emergency situations” outside the control of governments.
Partisan polarization in Congress has also undermined the executive branch, unduly blocking government appointments – including routine and essentially uncontroversial ones – and placing unwarranted obstacles in the way of implementing even the most sensible and seemingly bipartisan legislative proposals.
Over the last decade-and-a-half, executive compensation in America soared.
Similarly, the accounting problems with executive stock options were recognized by the Financial Accounting Standards Board, but again early efforts at reform met with resistance, from the obvious sources.
While for-profit providers have higher administrative costs and larger executive salaries, their main burden relative to not-for-profit provision is the need to generate returns for their shareholders.
He emphasized that a democratic system cannot be based only on institutions and mechanisms, such as the checks and balances between the executive, the legislature, and the judiciary; democracy needs more than political parties and free elections.
Furthermore, the former Google executive Wael Ghonim, who was active in the country’s 2011 uprising, publicly criticized the verdict against Naji.
Parliament's increasing irrelevance in sorting out these problems--indeed, its role in exacerbating them--is fueling a growing preference among Indians for a presidential system of government that removes executive functions from the oversight of an institution that has been addled and rendered impotent by undisciplined factions.
The very election by national suffrage of an executive provides the type of minimal consensus that India's faction-riven parliaments have, sadly, never been able to cultivate.
The government of Hollande and Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault has strong majorities at all executive and legislative levels, giving it a rare opportunity to act.
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