Mr Putin's centralisation of power has made Russia more autocratic but it has not made it better governed.
Mr. Weideman said regulations that governed renovation of historic landmarks made it harder and more costly to make physical adjustments.
He made it very clear that taxpayer dollars need to serve communities and neighborhoods, not big developers and special interests that have truly governed San Diego for decades".
Ukraine has no "Kremlin", wielding authority over all-comers, but that does not make it clean or well-governed.What about the argument that economic development, at least in its early stages, is best pursued under a benign despot? Lee Kuan Yew, an ex-prime minister of Singapore, once asserted that democracy leads to "disorderly conduct", disrupting material progress.
It also makes it clear that a government that rules with the consent of the governed has "just powers".
It advocated the ideals of freedom, social justice and equality as the main principles of a well-governed society, making it the most important theoretical monument of Greek republicanism.
In particular, notes the Secretary-General, "the lack of any significant increase in Official Development Assistance since 2004 makes it impossible, even for well-governed countries, to meet the MDGs".
"In particular," the Secretary-General says in the report's foreword, "the lack of any significant increase in Official Development Assistance since 2004 makes it impossible, even for well-governed countries, to meet the MDGs".
Above all, the study suggests people see the economy as a container, with some people contributing and others draining – and governed by mysterious, hard-to-understand forces, which make it unstable.
Today Kurdish areas are some of the most stable and well-governed parts of the region, despite endemic corruption.This, and the central role Kurds are now playing in the international fight against Islamic State, may make it harder to ignore Kurdish pleas for greater autonomy, if not independence.
