It's got to be leadership in shoring up democracy around the world, which is a fundamental U.S. interest today, since what most threatens world stability now is bad governing, corruption and the erosion of the rule of law in emerging democracies.
Back then he was a political novice, toiling under the long and lumpy shadow of his predecessor, John Spencer, who left office after bequeathing to Mr. Amicone an underachieving city, a collection of bad governing habits and even a chief of staff: Mr. Spencer's wife.
His new mission, for at least the next decade, he says, is to combat the influence of money on politics, which yields bad laws — and not just the bad laws governing intellectual property.
Still, even if trade liberalisation could somehow be negotiated, there would remain, in Soros's view, a deeper problem that plagues not only Africa but other areas of the Middle East and Asia: governments that are either hopelessly bad at governing, or deliberately bent on enriching themselves while abusing their citizens.
But Mr. Blohm cautioned that the chain of events might have been set off by bad rules governing the electric grid, which led to a transmission line shutting when what was needed was for a generator to shut down.
Why are they bad at governing?
In a Pew Research Center global survey which asked citizens whether a democratic system where representatives elected by citizens decide what becomes law be a good or bad way of governing a country, Brazil has a significant portion of respondents who responded that it would be a bad way of governing.
I don't think you can overestimate the negative effects of Kate Bush coming out for the Tories in a week this bad for the governing party.
"As soon as they get elected, they will see problems: falling revenues and decreasing help from the federal government," said Professor Beyle, who edited a book of essays about governing in bad economic periods, "Governors and Hard Times" (CQ Press, 1992).
IN MOST elections, a bad result for the governing party means a good result for the opposition, and vice versa.
Politicians make those mistakes on a public stage, and there's no reason to think that every elected official who makes bad personal choices is unfit to govern.
