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Political and institutional reform has not matched changes in people’s lifestyles; accountability in public life continues to be frustratingly weak.
Current discussions also tend to ignore – and even distort – the values that European institutional arrangements are supposed to serve.
Moreover, embedding these values in European institutional arrangements demands no sacrifices in terms of long-term GDP growth and employment.
Business leaders and policymakers can develop and deploy the technologies they want, according to their institutional needs.
Cameron’s remarks (“the EU is seen as something that is done to people rather than acting on their behalf”) came closer to the institutional skepticism of Ronald Reagan’s inaugural address in 1981 (“[I]t is not my intention to do away with government,” but “to make it …work with us, not over us”) than to Obama’s “European” vision.
To the extent that an institutional approach was taken, however, it was largely taken outside the framework of formal institutions such as the United Nations.
A second-term shift toward institutional multilateralism would embrace such action.
Given the rapidly approaching 2015 deadline to negotiate a new binding international agreement on climate change under the Durban Platform, a US administration that supports institutional solutions to global problems is vital.
It remains to be seen whether Obama’s inclusion of institutional renewal in his inaugural address marks a turning point in America’s approach to multilateralism.
If the international community is to produce “a global response to global challenges,” Obama must translate his call for institutional renewal into meaningful action.
On the other hand, one can always hope that the institutional changes, made necessary by the single currency project, will make Europe more capable of handling these structural changes.
To change this state of affairs, institutional investors must be allowed to propose their own slate of directors.
The SEC rule was an attempt to grant institutional investors this right.
There is some early sign, though, that board members nominated by institutional investors have the courage to stand up to management when it comes to excessive executive compensation.
The democratization of the market economy, he says, is possible only with “a corresponding deepening of democratic politics,” which implies “the institutional reconstruction of the market itself.”
Markets can function only within an institutional and legal framework that includes property rights, enforcement of contracts, quality and information controls, and many other rules to govern transactions.
The single most important institutional reform underlying price stability throughout the world has been the stronger independence of central banks.
Severe political and constitutional breakdown, as well as extensive social and institutional fragmentation, also hampers – or, in cases like Libya or Yemen, blocks – reform.
For all these reasons, the institutional reforms that are contained in the constitutional treaty are still urgently needed.
But an institutional mechanism is needed to implement this initiative, such as an inter-Korean consultative body.
The Germans have been insisting on institutional change – more centralized eurozone control over periphery banks and government budgets in exchange for expanded access to financing for the periphery.
Yet institutional change, despite the euphoria that greeted the latest EU summit, will take time, for it requires careful structuring and broader public support.
The US government has cited such recurring handicaps as excessive duplication of efforts, overlapping institutional mandates, and inadequate information-sharing and coordination of counterterrorism efforts.
That decision – and the speed with which it was reached – reflects the insight that the euro area’s institutional framework will remain incomplete until there are clear rules for handling financial crises.
But while measures encouraging economic convergence have been successful in many jurisdictions, they have failed in others, such as southern Italy, precisely because of the institutional weakness and widespread corruption that the populists decry.
In any case, if the EU is to survive long enough to implement the needed institutional reforms, it will to have to find ways to make the project more appealing for all.
In the United States, where markets, the judiciary, and regulation are highly developed, the imperative is not institutional reform, but policy reform – addressing the weak fiscal position, income and wealth inequities, unemployment, health care, and deteriorating physical infrastructure.
For China, the issue largely concerns the design and implementation of the next stage of institutional reforms to sustain economic growth and efficiency, reduce social inequality, remove market distortions, address environmental deterioration, and combat corruption.
How they use monetary, fiscal, structural, institutional, and regulatory policies may differ, but each will ultimately be judged by how close he comes to achieving that goal.
Though they may not be perfect – and, unfortunately, the countries that ratify them do not always achieve the targets – they have led to the creation of institutional processes that encourage countries to meet their promises and embolden citizens to hold governments accountable.
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