"The ability of governments to govern is being compromised by the overlegalization of Israeli society," said Gidi Grinstein, who runs an independent research center, the Reut Institute.
Changes in global economics and information flows are doing the real challenging, and undermining the ability of governments to govern.
Chinese and Indian voters have lost faith in the ability of the governing multiracial coalition to equalize opportunities, polls show, and they are shifting their support to the opposition.
There are also concerns over facilities, with some local authorities forced to close leisure centres and swimming pools due to budget cuts, and worries over the ability of sport governing bodies to drive the uplift in participation promised by those who said it would be one of the positive legacies of the London Olympics.
A particular liberalism, partly incubated at Harvard, intimates the impossibility, for most people, of self-government — of the ability to govern one's self.
It was an admission of failure that underlined a view shared by Rousseff's opponents and allies about the president's lack of ability to govern.
"But how bad is it in terms of his ability to govern and the legitimacy of his presidency?
Today, as it became clear that Mr. Hu and fellow leaders faced public unease and a severe test of their ability to govern well, the front pages of the official People's Daily and other papers all carried a huge, hortatory article with the headline "In the Midst of Disaster, the Unity of the Masses Is an Impregnable Fortress".
Mr. Ford himself in a written reply to a query by The New York Times, said that while he did not think the President had lost any of "his basic powers," there has been a swing of "the historic pendulum" toward Congress, raising the possibility of a "disruptive" erosion of his ability to govern.
Having made elimination of the deficit the test of their ability to govern, they have come to see the deficit as a crisis because they cannot solve it, not because of any harm it causes". Be cool, the authors advise.
