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These
representatives
– with whom I've interacted at three congressional hearings recently – are convinced that the US federal government is too big relative to the economy, and that drastic measures are needed to bring it under control.
In the US, board membership for workers’ representatives, strong unions, and government regulation of private-sector training are not part of the prevailing institutional formula.
To this end, Thailand urgently needs a new social contract that allows elected
representatives
to do their jobs, without marginalizing the establishment-based minority.
While insurance industry
representatives
declare their intent and passion to rein in climate change and ensure a livable planet, in the back rooms their agents are still busy working their financial magic to underwrite new coal-fired power stations, oil rigs, tar sands projects, gas pipelines, and other polluting projects.
In addition to national representatives, the Forum's members include international organizations concerned with financial stability.
They should tell their
representatives
how many voters they have registered in each district – and they should organize to oust politicians who are brutal or repressive.
Protesters should elect
representatives
for a finite “term,” just like in any democracy, and train them to talk to the press and to negotiate with politicians.
Bridging the Transatlantic Digital DivideBRUSSELS – On September 8, after four years of painstaking negotiations,
representatives
of the United States and the European Union initialed a transatlantic agreement to strengthen data protection.
I therefore urge all nations, rich and poor, to send their highest-level
representatives
to Doha with full determination to do what must be done.
For example, Chinese
representatives
disbursed almost $2.3 billion to acquire a 45% stake in one of Nigeria’s offshore oil fields and promised to invest an additional $2.25 billion in develop the reserves.
They acknowledged that under the city's special constitution, the Basic Law, these elections could be the first opportunities for the territory to choose its
representatives
according to the principle of "one person, one vote."
Only 199,000 voters, some of them
representatives
from corporations, elect the legislators who fill these seats.
And, indeed, a reluctance to cooperate was on display at last month’s meeting of the EU’s Justice and Home Affairs Council, where
representatives
failed to produce an arrangement on how to distribute the paltry 40,000 refugees that the European Council agreed to accept in June.
They find that US districts where the economy was severely hit by Chinese exports have responded by replacing moderate
representatives
with more radical politicians – either from the left or the right.
It is now ceding the commanding heights of Chinese politics to autonomous
representatives
of social forces that it cannot control.
Representatives
of an economically dynamic and socially conservative heartland are moving Turkey toward reform.
Instead of attempting to impose a new Syrian leadership, the US should host a meeting with internally selected
representatives
to help them draft a constitution and make other political arrangements.
State governments in the US exercise little sovereignty in large part because they have less need of it: their residents receive transfers from the center and send their
representatives
to Washington, DC, to help make federal policy.
Ironically, it was an advantage of the Nuremberg courts that they were staffed by the
representatives
of the victorious powers.
Any one of these groups could instigate a revolt and compel their Knesset
representatives
to bring down Netanyahu’s government.
Where they did, they and their
representatives
had no good way to think about how they could benefit from stimulative government policies to moderate economic downturns, and no way to reach the levers of power in any event.
Democracy is government by debate, by taking important decisions after thorough deliberation of the kind that--at least in large countries--must be conducted in a parliament through elected
representatives.
Even more worrying than insider trading by elected
representatives
is the political-intelligence industry that now flourishes in Washington, Brussels, and other major global capitals.
In particular, the accounting, transparency, and fraud rules that govern businesses do not apply to elected
representatives.
Rather than just extending insider-trading law to the US Congress (or to other legislatures), citizens should demand that all restrictions and reporting requirements imposed on the private sector apply automatically to elected
representatives
as well.
But that – the real revolution – will happen only when true
representatives
of citizens, rather than the military, begin to set their countries’ political course.
Safeguarding CyberspaceCAMBRIDGE – Brazil recently hosted NETmundial, the first global conference on Internet governance, attended by 800
representatives
of governments, corporations, civil-society organizations, and technologists.
All were portrayed as
representatives
of another world, with no relationship to the lives of ordinary British people.
The Global Commission on Internet Governance (of which I am a member) has put forward a proposal for “a new social compact” among citizens, their elected representatives, law-enforcement and intelligence agencies, businesses, civil-society groups, and programmers and developers.
In fact, at recent guideline meetings in the United Kingdom on the issue of ECT, there have been no
representatives
from psychiatry, but many from patient groups.
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