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If the government were truly becoming more responsive, why have we not seen similar responses to other disputes over the theft of farmland, compromised investors’ rights, or high-level corruption?
Second, companies are facing intensifying pressure to improve their handling of sexual harassment accusations, from their response to initial complaints to their reporting of such responses.
But if Western experience is any guide, ad hoc responses to high rates of work accidents won't reduce the risks to Chinese workers.
These panicked responses are not just futile.
And when it comes to protecting citizens from Ebola – not to mention preventing similar global health crises from emerging in the future – these responses may well be counterproductive.
Much of that increase has more to do with public perceptions about supposed crime waves and ham-handed public and political responses to occasional headline-capturing murders, than any actual underlying crime rate.
We need you to pivot in your responses from the tactical to the strategic, from the cyclical to the secular, from the partial to the comprehensive, and from sequential to simultaneous reforms.
First, the policy responses are different; second, the effects on social cohesion and the social contract’s credibility are also different.
But selective responses to the actions of dictatorships can be problematic and counterproductive.
While, ideally, global risks would be met with global responses, the reality is that these risks manifest themselves mainly at the national level, and countries must address them largely on their own.
At a time when power is increasingly diffuse and organization difficult, Obama began to spearhead more flexible policy responses.
But today's responses to China's economic challenge may be as misbegotten as yesterday's answers to le défi Americain .
These are secular trends that call for forward-looking assessments and long-term responses.
That is why all public-health interventions must focus first and foremost on scientific facts, and avoid emotional or panicked responses.
In 2015, global frameworks are due to be agreed to address climate change, coordinate responses to natural disasters, and guide the world’s development agenda.
Successful multilateral responses, like the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, continue to be supported by more flexible global platforms, such as the Nuclear Threat Initiative, based on relationships and trust established outside the box of formal multilateralism.
This year, as world leaders discuss the next generation of sustainability, development, and climate frameworks, they will need to put their security and mutual dependence at the heart of the responses.
Only after his re-election in autumn 2002, did he give up his previous populist stance, short-term responses and neo-corporatist ways of trying to talk trade unions and employers' associations into compromise.
The Copenhagen Consensus Center – a think tank where I serve as director – recently asked a large group of top climate economists to explore the costs and benefits of different responses to global warming.
At the same time, the financial imbalances and distortions that precede a crisis delay appropriate and necessary responses to technological and global market forces in the real economy as well.
So policymakers’ responses cannot be evaluated by short-term measures, either.
Unless political leaders resist such responses, the past could become the future.
Given this interconnectedness, it is unsurprising that the EU’s compartmentalized responses – such as the European Agenda on Migration, the Eastern Partnership, and the Energy Security Strategy – while important, have proved inadequate.
But, when an emergency strikes, large-scale policy responses always produce unintended consequences typically sowing the seeds for the next full-blown crisis.
As new issues arise the need and the ability to adopt a cross-sector perspective generates novel regulatory responses.
I am not always successful in practicing what I preach, but I work for a politics that knows its matters what comes first and what follows, a politics that acknowledges that all things have a proper sequence and order, a politics that realizes that citizens -- without theorizing as I am now -- know perfectly well whether political actions have a direction, a structure, a logic in time and space, or whether they lack these qualities and are merely haphazard responses to circumstances.
Yet, over the centuries, the responses to these incentives gradually strengthened and entrepreneurship took hold.
Decision-makers and commentators need to take into account not only the economic but also the social and political consequences of certain policy responses or the transnational costs of not taking swift and decisive decisions.
As the drive to divest from fossil fuels picks up speed, such panicky responses are becoming increasingly common.
There are three possible responses to this state of affairs.
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