In a situation of no overall control, the incumbent government gets the first chance at creating a coalition.
Large funds usually want to buy businesses worth more than $100m, but last year there were only seven such deals, and about half the firms bought were worth less than $10m.Even when a potential deal is identified, family owners are often unwilling to relinquish control and incumbent managers are reluctant to make room for newcomers.
Many governments are wary of democracy aid because it is designed to foster independent institutions and civil society, rather than buttress entities under the control of incumbent national leaders.
Remember, the Legislature, which writes the election laws, is controlled by incumbents and party leaders.
The pollution comes from illegal fires set mostly by plantation owners who were protected by the government of former President Suharto and appear to be beyond the control of the incumbent, Abdurrahman Wahid.
The internationally recognized president-elect said Monday that he and his supporters would march on state institutions on Thursday in a bid to take control from the incumbent president, who refuses to step down.
Given the enormous and proven public health benefits arising from the use of DDT in disease control, it is incumbent on van den Berg to cite human health harm from DDT exposure that fulfills the basic epidemiologic criteria for a clear and unambiguous cause-and-effect relationship.
Last month, I examined how different economic models reacted when you add a variable that controls for an incumbent's "grace period".
"It is not surprising that new entry to a market, once 100percentt controlled by the incumbent provider, is taking significant effort".
When parties are roughly evenly matched, elections often turn on irrelevant or misleading considerations such as economic spurts or downturns beyond the incumbents' control.
