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The United States and Europe’s mature democracies may function well enough with the “checks and balances” of divided government (though the Republicans’ bid to impeach President Clinton eight years ago might suggest otherwise), but in Asia the failure to bestow executive and legislative powers on a single institution is usually a terrible drawback.
And it was assumed that what Trump’s allies learned would be fed to the White House, undermining the crucial concept of congressional oversight of the executive branch.
Many executive teams are overconfident about their company’s competitive strength.
These people – and their cabinet colleagues – are using executive actions to pursue an extreme agenda, such as removing environmental protections, which will result in more polluted air and water around the US.
When Trump has been able to act without Congress, his appointments and executive orders have been beyond extreme.
Given that France overcame similar weaknesses and political deadlock with the creation of the Fifth Republic, which includes a robust executive led by a powerful president, the French model seems like an effective one to follow.
But, for many Italians, the French political system’s most attractive feature is that the president is the true head of the executive – and, since the presidential and legislative terms were aligned in 2000, that authority has run for five years at a time.
French history demonstrates that excessive presidential power is likely to create an almighty and, at times, politically feckless executive, alongside a weak parliament that chronically under-represents a significant proportion of the population.
Trump’s executive order suspending resettlement of Syrian refugees, temporarily barring new refugees regardless of where they are from, and banning all immigration from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen caused immediate harm to people already on their way to the US.
In contrast, a study by Alex Nowrasteh, an immigration policy analyst at the libertarian Cato Institute, concludes that in the 40 years up to the end of 2015, no one has been killed in the US in terrorist attacks by foreigners from any of the seven countries singled out in Trump’s executive order.
The executive order will provide an early test of the extent to which US courts can restrain the Trump presidency.
Judges have temporarily blocked some aspects of the executive order – for example, those detained on arrival in the US under the order may not be deported; but it will be some time before the courts resolve all the questions the new prohibitions raise.
According to Nowrasteh, Trump’s executive order will have virtually no effect on improving US security.
Given the suffering that his executive order is causing, it is beginning to look as if he might just be that unethical – or, what in this case amounts to the same thing, that crazy.
Initially, the five-year interim agreement called for the election of a Palestinian Legislative Council and an executive leader whom the Israelis wanted to call a “chairman,” spurning the word “president.”
The PLO will likely gain much from Abbas’s decision, because it de-emphasizes the status of the PA president and raises the profile of his post as chairman of the PLO’s executive committee.
In August, one executive, Véronique Laury, said that her professional ambition is to have “a positive impact in the wider world.”
The bill submitted to Congress even had language in it that would exempt the secretary’s decisions from review by any court or administrative agency - the ultimate fulfillment of the Bush administration’s dream of a unitary executive.
Responding “in the moment, dynamically, really takes analytic skills, executive function, ordering and sequencing, and knowing a lot of information.”
Alexei, an opponent of Putin on par with Khodorkovsky, received a suspended sentence;Oleg, an apolitical postal executive, will have to serve his full term in prison.
If Corbyn were a CEO who lost the confidence of his entire executive team and board, he would be forced to resign or be fired.
But a remark by one mining company executive from a developing country caught the spirit of change.
Alex Thier, who managed multibillion-dollar US government aid programs before becoming executive director of the Overseas Development Institute in London, was visiting a health clinic in Buikwe, Uganda, when he received the news of Trump’s budget proposal, which would mean deep cuts to such facilities.
The Supreme Leader has absolute authority and can veto decisions made by the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of government.
Britain and the US had contested elections and political systems that limited the arbitrary exercise of executive power – institutions that are absent in China’s political system.
Might it be possible for China to establish limits on arbitrary executive power and strengthen creditor rights sufficiently without undertaking a full-fledged transition to democracy?
Creating a proper parliament, able to dismiss the executive, would destroy the European Parliament’s “current make-up” and usher in a democratic politics that would prevent official creditors from crushing countries like Greece.
As an executive body, the Commission need not be composed strictly according to a specified pattern, and not all countries - especially after the Union's expansion - need be represented.
So an invasion might have led to the death of 80 million Americans and the obliteration of Cuba simply because Kennedy’s government did not have the facts right (which is often more common than not when the executive must take a solitary decision.)
The European parliament is also not yet a real parliament, with control of the purse and oversight of the executive.
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