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Why, when it comes to dying, do democratic institutions so often fail to translate what people want into legislation?
But the ECB, whose only mandate is to maintain price stability, cannot pursue this policy without fundamental changes in legislation.
If US President Donald Trump manages to get any economic legislation passed at all in the coming year, it is likely to be a tax cut.
He can draft and help shape legislation that he believes to be in the public interest.
The urgency of the problem makes it all the more galling that in Moscow last month, 26 countries, including Russia, the United States, India, and China, signed a declaration that threatens to kill the only legislation that would address it.
As a result, the government has not hesitated to try to curry favor with the Islamists by using legislation that prohibits “hurting religious sentiments” to harass and arrest atheists and liberals.
But the controversial legislation to outlaw Taiwanese secession has proved anything but routine.
Opinion polls in Taiwan reflect public dismay over the Chinese legislation, and this negative sentiment will raise the pressure on President Chen, who recently antagonized some of his more ardent pro-independence supporters by reaching out to the pro-unification opposition People First Party.
Coalition infighting and the prospect of a national election in 2014 further complicate efforts to enact reform legislation.
And legislation will soon create the opportunity for expanded foreign ownership in the financial sector.
Legislation, courts, and law-enforcement mechanisms have failed to address the high incidence of violence against women.
Perhaps for the first time ever, India’s government failed to enact even a single piece of legislation, much less undertake any economic reforms, restore price stability, or address widespread civil disorder.
Market reforms initiated by the left started in 1984 with a New Zealand labor government which enacted legislation that transformed a small formerly isolated nation into one of the most "liberal" economies in the world.
Policymakers must use stronger metrics to assess human capital and reexamine investment in education, curriculum design, hiring and firing practices, women’s integration into the workforce, retirement policies, immigration legislation, and welfare policies.
The second reason that a million US women have filed for bankruptcy is that legislation enacted in 2005 now pits individual women – who can’t afford costly legal advice – against credit-card companies in terms of who gets paid first when ex-husbands owe delinquent credit-card payments and child-support payments.
It took a century to enact legislation ensuring equal rights; but today, Republican-controlled courts and politicians often renege on that commitment.
Poles are demonstrating against legislation enacted by the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party that would lower the retirement age of Supreme Court justices, effectively forcing out all judges over the age of 65 and allowing the PiS to pack the court with its own tame justices.
That means judges cannot be removed by legislation – at least not constitutionally.
A minority coalition that included the Greens would force the CSU to compromise on migration issues and climate policy, which would be unnecessary otherwise, given the inability of the SPD, Die Linke (The Left), and the Greens to block legislation.
With the government seeking partners to enact legislation on an ad hoc basis, the Bundestag would finally become the site of genuine public debate once again.
Likewise, in April, Putin signed legislation simplifying the procedure for Russian speakers in former Soviet republics to obtain Russian citizenship.
US regulators, for example, cannot first try bankruptcy before deploying their expanded powers under the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial-reform legislation; if they did, the bankrupt firm’s counterparties in the derivatives and repo markets would close out their contracts and dump their collateral as soon as they could.
Yet, when one considers other successful efforts to improve public health over the last five decades – for example, smoking bans, seat-belt laws, and speed limits – one finds that legislation typically supplemented education.
Legislation and regulation produced in the wake of the crisis have mostly served as a patch to preserve the status quo.
Combined, the legislation appears on track to run 30,000 pages.
In the United States, a bipartisan group of members of Congress is supporting legislation to end the use of chimpanzees in invasive research.
The state of Arizona recently enacted legislation that encourages local police to check the immigration status of people who were stopped for other reasons – and requires immigrants to produce proof of their legal status on demand.
How districts are drawn affects the partisan makeup of the House, and therefore the fate of federal legislation.
Moreover, the brake that the functional constituencies can put on legislation should be scrapped, leaving decisions to a simple majority.
Research by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York has shown that regulation and legislation in this area must strike a balance, lest it undermine “the ability of regulatory agencies to seek and retain talent.”
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