We have consistently worked with international financial institutions to impose neoliberal governance -- leaving the Haitian government impotent before the earthquake, and largely invisible since.
They impose unwanted governance by Downing Street démarche.
Given the failure of nation-building in Afghanistan, suggestions that America impose specific governance structures on Pakistan are delusional.
The new report suggests that raising awareness, creating suitable facilities, and imposing stricter governance on the processing of e-waste could change that.
The UN was there as a forum for cooperation between strong and independent nations, not to impose "global governance" from on high.
The second story describes the role of state and national politics in imposing educational governance changes on public schools and draconian limitations on union bargaining rights.
Paul Gompers of Harvard Business School and two colleagues looked at 1,500 firms in the 1990s and found those that were most responsive to shareholders would have enjoyed returns 8.5% a year higher than those run as management dictatorships**.When regulators seek to impose good governance, they may do more harm than they prevent.
And this, of course, has been a procedural preference that we've forgotten, to our great detriment, in our recent efforts to impose democratic governance, top-down, in various other parts of the world where we have too often acted without such a consideration of preparation or timing.
But negotiating with groups who believe they are God's agents and whose imposed mode of governance is utterly alien to the people of northern Mali is unlikely to succeed, especially while the north remains occupied.
"Frustrated by their incapacity to overcome modest opponents in the group phase, senior members of Domenech's squad … decided to take the matter into their own hands and impose self-governance within the French camp.
