For of all his eloquence, however, he had never built the constituency to transform theological precepts into public policy.
The political response has been to design institutions like trade-adjustment assistance that are ostensibly about moving liberalisation closer to Pareto efficiency but which actually serve to build the political constituency for liberalisation.Mr Rodrik, however, is not focused on the importance of the quiescence of those negatively affected by trade.
Ms. Baird, who has been working with standards-making bodies and world governments to establish forums in which companies, governments, nonprofit groups and public representatives could be heard on questions of Internet policy, said the report reinforced the need to build that constituency before an "online oil spill" alienates the public.
But there's been a surprising twist in the life of the classic book: "A Pattern Language" is becoming a dot-com, one that may serve as a launchpad to build the kind of global constituency Mr. Alexander has always hoped for.
Second, ACA benefits are not consistently generous enough to build the strong and cohesive national constituency enjoyed by programs such as Social Security.
You need to build across the constituencies.
Such efforts, already begun, and collaborations between groups with similar goals, such as the NIEHS and the Fogarty International Center, could help build a constituency to identify and diminish the many risks posed by environmental hazards.
Deciding she "wanted to help build a constituency for the Foreign Service," she created unapologetically smooth, lush images that present the embassies, from the most gracious houses to the most forbidding office block, in their best light.
The big economic question for the next century, in other words, is really political: can the Second Global Economy build a constituency that reaches beyond the sort of people who congregate at Davos?
Can she overcome her controversial views to build a constituency on the left?
