Informal barriers to entry and old networks of communist-era pals keep bits of the economy off limits to outsiders, at huge cost to efficiency.Getting state institutions to function better is easier to discuss than to accomplish.
The stabilization of Somalia in the early 1990s illustrated that complex reciprocal legal commitments exist for collective regional security institutions to function properly.
One of the paradoxes of the health sector and other high trust social enterprises in circumstances of strongly contested power relationships, is that in order for institutions to function well they need high levels of social legitimacy, that mostly imply universal rights and obligations.
But for these institutions to function, the armed forces had to maintain the will and ability to delay the Allies' inexorable advance.
The popular RS President Milorad Dodic has attempted to bridge this gap between expectations and reality with small measures that chip away at the central state's institutions, in turn making it more difficult for these institutions to function.
This is necessary for those institutions to function, but we have shown how, in this dysfunctional case, this phenomenon has led to erroneous threat assessments and misguided policies.
Nevertheless, the point is, if an institution is to function smoothly, details are important -- but a president should not be the one to focus on them, if the college or university is to thrive.
Beginning in the 1980s and ever since, we have seen a non-stop barrage of legislative and, in some cases, judicial attempts to significantly weaken the civil justice system with laws that corporate America calls "tort reform". And now, the question as to whether this constitutionally protected institution deserves to function at all has been reduced to budgetary and fiscal squabbling.
Our findings in the needs assessments can be used to understand what each African institution needs to function effectively and sustainably while at the same time meeting the requirements of donor agencies.
