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Luzhkov and the governors were not thrilled by this new complication in dividing the future political spoils.
The Federation Council (the upper chamber of the Duma), too, was generally loyal to the president, as were regional governors, while remaining independent.
State governors and city mayors, for their part, must take the lead in setting state and local priorities, with each deciding whether to opt into national projects.
In the United States, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has challenged Fed governors’ independence, and made it clear that he would quickly replace the Fed’s leadership were he elected.
Some have even held important political positions, serving as ministers, members of congress, governors, and mayors.
Today, roughly half of all revenue goes to fund the inflated salaries and perks of government officials, including parliamentarians, governors, local and national bureaucrats, and endless legions of administrators.
That is the world’s largest age gap between governors and the governed, and it raises concerns about how well decision-makers understand the needs and aspirations of young people.
Puerto Rico is not Greece; successive governors of the island have introduced budgets they thought were balanced, only to find that inadequate growth led to lower revenues and higher expenditures than had been projected.
Because Congress determines the Fed’s regulatory powers and approves the appointments of its seven governors, Bernanke will have to listen to it carefully – heightening the risk of delayed tightening and rising inflation.
Still, President Putin has a unique chance to reform because of his reputation for competence and his support in the Duma and among regional governors.
Yes, things could and should have been done better; but to single out Fed governors for missing the coming catastrophe is ludicrous.
Moreover, it is misleading to single out the most misguided comments by individual governors in the context of an active intellectual debate over policy.
The more intently Fed governors focus on their core responsibilities, the more inclined politicians will be to respect their independence.
This bizarre transfer of office but not power – perhaps a slight improvement on state governors in the American south who used to hand their offices to their wives when their term-limits expired – is Putin’s scenario.
Emerging-market central-bank governors fear a US that alternates between expansionary policy that fuels huge hot-money inflows and a domestic inflationary spiral, and rapid tightening that chokes off credit and causes a domestic recession.
Leave aside governors (the BJP asked all to resign to make way for political appointees soon after its 2014 election victory) and start with the judicial system, which has come under scrutiny since January, when the Supreme Court’s four most senior judges held an unprecedented press conference to question Chief Justice Dipak Misra’s allocation of cases.
Earlier in the month, Ihor Prokopchuk, Ukraine’s ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency, circulated a letter to the organization’s board of governors warning that an invasion could bring a “threat of radiation contamination on the territory of Ukraine and the territory of neighboring states.”
The mayoral campaign is now in full swing, with the election on September 8 the first in Moscow in ten years, as Putin had simply been appointing loyalists as mayors and governors throughout the country.
In Europe, the changes brought by the new governors are likely to be more significant.
After all, when Carney was “imported,” he was disrupting the tradition of in-house appointments – a tradition that will be revitalized if, as seems likely, one of the BoE’s current deputy governors is named as his replacement.
Moreover, as a second-term, lame-duck President, presiding over a recession, and in a complicated Federal system with powerful state Governors, President Cardoso is unlikely to maintain much political power and support for his austerity policies.
At the US Federal Reserve, decisions are made by the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), whose members – seven governors and five presidents of the Fed’s regional reserve banks – enjoy varying degrees of independence.
With BOJ Governor Masaaki Shirakawa’s term ending in April, Abe will be able to select a successor – and two deputy governors as well – to do his bidding.
Rampant corruption has discredited regional governors as a counterweight.
Indeed, the financial crash of August 1998 was provoked in large measure by governors issuing big subsidies to friendly local enterprises and demanding kick-backs in return.
Not a surprise, then, that the governors cannot mobilize popular support as federal authorities impose accountability standards on them.
Similarly, the government cut the department governors’ revenue in order to finance an expanded pension plan and weaken them politically and economically.
The ongoing Marja campaign, the arrest of Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar and two Taliban "shadow governors" in Pakistan, and the recent drone strike hitting top leaders of the Al Qaeda-affiliated Haqqani network are all clear steps in the right direction.
All Governors, whatever their voting rights, will continue to attend meetings of the Governing Council and to participate fully in its discussions.
But politicians and central bank governors cannot always be expected to make good decisions: good policies must be designed to function even when rulers are short-sighted and badly advised.
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