"Taste in politics, just like taste in music, has gone from being dictated top down to where it bubbles up.
But Brazil also still receives aid so, for good or ill, its aid programme is eroding the distinction between donors and recipients, thus undermining the old system of donor-dictated, top-down aid.And all this has consequences for the West.
Mr. Brooks is the one, not Tea Partiers, with far more in common with those on the left who desire order dictated from top-down structures or, as he puts it, "just authorities".
Mr Corbyn also promised to change the Labour Party's internal politics too, with decisions over policy decided by the party as a whole rather than just the leader and a few of his top team dictating party policy in a top-down approach.
However, the moderators are not top-down doctors dictating their own diagnoses, but instead they are enabling the "patients" themselves to self-heal collaboratively and find out the remedies needed.
In the arena of agriculture, Poland, a new member state, is the latest victim of the union's rigid, top-down dictates.
But when the practitioners at the teacher end of it are handed the information after it has been rendered near meaningless by a series of sieves over many years, and that information is presented to us as yet another top-down dictate that the acceptable, state-approved version of teaching has altered slightly, then that day looks a long way off.
Mr Bex wants to get rid of the "top-down dictate" from Westminster and Brussels and replace it with "bottom-up democracy".
Judge Caldwell's decision upholds the rule of law in Louisiana and should be a wake-up call to so-called reformers determined to ram through top-down dictates that undermine the voice of educators and public schools at all costs.
Local circumstances dictated the extent to which such top-down attention was welcomed.
