At a minimum, there have to be national arrangements in the form of laws, ombudsmen and constitutional safeguards to make sure that local bargaining doesn't produce outrageous results.
The government's answer is to make many of them theoretically subject to judicial review, but only after multiple layers of complaint to local institutions and ombudsmen.
There are also different ombudsmen to deal with complaints about each type of financial service.
He proposes that big internet companies appoint independent ombudsmen, like those at newspapers.
Where people are promoted according to personal ties rather than merit, the bank gives a score of only two out of six; where ombudsmen and auditors exist, but lack authority, the bank gives a score of just three.
He says that too much business-chasing on his part would probably irritate national ombudsmen, and he has to depend on their co-operation.
Most he passed on to ombudsmen in EU states.
For example, Mr Uribe plans to scrap the local ombudsmen known as personeros.
A gaggle of other independent agencies, such as the State Audit Commission, various ombudsmen and the Human Rights Commission, provide yet more mechanisms to investigate and expose official misdeeds.Naturally, today's Sri Thanonchais are already hard at work trying to undermine the new institutions.
Some specialized ombudsmen have been appointed in the United States to safeguard the rights of prisoners to medical treatment.
Australia, the United States, and Canada have ombudsmen at the state or provincial level, and in the United States several cities have municipal ombudsmen.
