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Powerful vested interests had been built up in the postal monopoly; opposition to it was scattered.
The problems of overcoming vested interests, of frustrating rent seeking, apply to almost every attempt to change government policy, whether the change involves telecoms privatization or reducing farm subsidies.
Indeed, private enterprise can create powerful interests vested in peace.
The establishment of a Scottish Parliament vested with powers devolved from the United Kingdom Parliament at Westminster has been perhaps the first revolution of the modern era that was conducted by committees of lawyers, clergymen, and accountants rather than cells of bearded radicals.
But designing the right reforms is only part of the challenge: powerful vested interests will make reform politically difficult.
In fact, the DRC has one of the world’s lowest revenue-to-GDP ratios, with foreign actors and local vested interests effectively pillaging the country.
A second explanation is that Japan’s economic structure became rigid because vested interests, especially in construction and services, prevented structural changes.
The tobacco industry and other vested interests argue that tax increases on tobacco products fuel illicit trade.
A new global agreement must be science-based, not a lowest-common-denominator compromise watered down by vested interests.
Achieving the SDGs – and, thus, tackling the climate crisis – will require us to stand up to the vested political, business, and economic interests that seek to maintain our current unequal order.
Europe is pushing for ambitious targets but is having trouble with its own vested interests.
An inter-governmental system that falls apart under the challenges of trade negotiations and proliferation threats is unlikely to master the deep complexity and multitudinous vested interests that the issue of climate change entails.
If reformers are to win, they must be prepared to fight the world’s most powerful vested interest.
Consider the kind of corruption in advanced economies exposed by the 2007-2008 global financial crisis, in which vested interests secure the enactment of laws and regulations that entrench their own advantages.
Maintaining accountability and preventing vested interests from capturing institutions – a process that involves entrenching morality within vulnerable bureaucracies – will be no easy feat.
Louis Uchitelle of The New York Times quotes the highly intelligent Catherine Mann commenting on the "co-dependent relationship…between the US and its trading partners," which might "last for quite some time," because "the US and its main trading partners have a vested interest in the status quo."
Opponents of Juliana, including the politically influential energy industry, cynically hope that they can succeed in getting the case dismissed and put generational rights in the hands of a deeply divided – and, for powerful vested interests, pliable – Congress.
The next step is for Abe’s government to use its political capital to overcome vested interests, both in the bureaucracy and the business community.
They championed recall votes as a way to remove leaders and officials serving vested interests rather than citizens.
Instead of formulating and implementing comprehensive and transparent reforms, the government would have no choice but to continue to indulge – and, above all, avoid threatening – vested interests.
China will need to continue reforms and overcome vested interests, particularly in the state-owned sector, but its chances of success remain high.
Long-term national interest must take precedence over short-term political goals, vested interests, and political patronage.
But the kind of deep and comprehensive reforms that China needs are always difficult to implement, given that they necessarily affect vested interests.
Then the economy’s stultifying corporatism – clientelism and cronyism in the public sector and vested interests and entrenched elites in the private sector – would gain a new lease on life.
Dalli denies any involvement in the affair, suggesting instead that Barroso sacked him to appease vested interests, and claims that his Maltese associate’s alleged corruption was simply well-organized entrapment.
Neoliberals attacked the expense of entitlement programs and the vested interests of trade unions.
How can we overcome the role that vested interests may be playing in setting a global health agenda that fails to address key drivers of disease?
Vested interests distort the process of evolution.
In trade zones formed by heterogeneous states, vested interests tend to be diverse and find it hard to lobby at the supranational level.
Partly for this reason, EU enlargement is superior--at least for financial markets--to political unification, which encourages vested interests to lobby at the central level.
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