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And both favor a rules-based Asian trading order that reinforces the global norms that have served the world so well since WWII’s end.
Under prevailing social norms in both developed and developing countries, women are still expected to bear the primary responsibilities of caring for children, the elderly, and other family dependents.
Indeed, household-sector debt is still in excess of 110% of disposable personal income and the personal saving rate remains below 3%, averages that compare unfavorably with the 75% and 7.9% norms that prevailed, respectively, in the final three decades of the twentieth century.
Whether a potential business partner adheres to international human-rights norms seems to be irrelevant to this administration.
But now these trends are routinely converted into norms against which the performance of particular universities, departments, and even individual researchers is judged.
And language matters here: indignation suggests that some social actors – a government or elites in general – have violated shared norms or moral understandings.
In such a scenario, self-empowered minorities come to speak in the name of imaginary majorities – a populism of sorts, and, like all populism, driven by emotions more than by norms, let alone reasons.
If today’s protest movements are based on righteous indignation, the lack of concrete demands should not be a problem: shared norms (and the policies that would follow from them) can still broadly be assumed.
We should constantly be wary of populism that stifles political pluralism and undermines liberal democratic norms.
That raises the stakes of political survival considerably, especially given the absence of any credible guarantor of constitutional norms and behavior.
His endorsement, along with strong support from nongovernmental organizations and the Independent Commission for the Reform of International Corporate Taxation, gave greater force to the demand by developing countries, organized around the Group of 77 and China, for an equal voice in setting global tax norms.
Yet the domination of a select group of countries over tax norms has meant that, in reality, the global governance architecture for taxation has not kept pace with globalization.
But although the OECD invites some developing countries to participate in its discussions to establish norms, it offers them no decision-making power.
Far from being a single nation in the process of formation, Europe is only a space of proximity governed by democratic norms and a shared rule of law.
Part of the slowdown from pre-crisis norms of 1.5-2% annual growth may reflect supply-side factors; productivity growth may face structural headwinds.
They do not believe that constitutional norms and representative democracy have primacy over values and “legitimate” popular grievances.
After all, precautionary policymakers would have business value conservation over growth, while the proactionary camp would have the state encourage people to transcend current norms rather than adhere to them.
It is unwilling to accept American leadership in Asia; but it is also reluctant to assume a more prominent role in promoting regional integration, fearing the concomitant pressure for more economic liberalization, adherence to international norms and rules, and a more transparent approach to its military buildup.
To say that the referendum produced a clear winner, and to base a declaration of independence on that vote, is a travesty of common sense and of democratic norms that would tarnish the nascent state as a grossly illegitimate enterprise.
Legal norms are also moving in the right direction.
But the EU will succeed in transposing its laws, norms, and values to accession candidates only if applicant governments take its promises seriously.
Given that the disease can kill up to 90% of its victims – higher than the mortality rate from the bubonic plague – there seems to be little to lose from relaxing clinical norms.
We grow up navigating cultural norms and expectations that, while certainly constraining, give us insights that are essential for inclusive policymaking.
Second, we must adapt Japan’s labor regulations to the norms of modern life almost everywhere, which means allowing every individual to strike a beneficial balance between life and work.
In particular, there is no doubt about the norms and principles that our people and our government have long upheld, such as popular sovereignty, respect for human rights, and peace – all pillars of the Japanese constitution.
That said, Europe needs to learn to be clearer and more transparent about the interests underlying its own policies, rather than suggesting that its positions on a specific subject represent the only rational implementation of democratic values and norms.
They rally against multilateral bodies like the World Trade Organization (WTO) – the main forum for negotiating and implementing global trade norms and one of the only international organizations with a quasi-judicial dispute-settlement entity.
Traditionally, nation-states have defended themselves against foreign threats through military means, while running their internal affairs according to a set of norms designed to protect their citizens’ rights.
Beyond ensuring that these actions are guided by international law, the EU should foster a global debate on the deficiencies of certain international norms in the face of today’s new conflicts.
Many philosophers since Aristotle have argued that human beings thrive when they are part of close-knit communities imbued with strong norms of civic virtue.
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