Those invested in existing chemicals have a strong commercial interest in resisting policies that could improve market transparency and the commercial viability of safer substitutes, as evidenced by the efforts of the American Chemistry Council to influence REACH negotiations (Brown 2003; Loewenberg 2006; U.S. House of Representatives 2004).
Do school boards have an obligation to resist policy mandates that are blatantly devoid of supportive research and will potentially harm our children, teachers and schools?
Eventually, these actors resist policy change, even with flawed or inefficient policies, because of the learning investment placed in the current design and prospect of a similar type of investment any new design would necessitate [ 21, 26, 31].
Policymakers pull levers but little seems to work, in part because practitioners resist policies in which they feel little ownership.
He claimed a yes vote in the referendum would allow the Scottish parliament to resist policies such as the bedroom tax or a new generation of nuclear weapons.
These positions may be held so dogmatically that their supporters feel that coercion is justified in forcing people to accept their point of view or that violence is an appropriate response to resist policies whose validity they question.
Hayek recognised the moral problem of out-of-the-gate income inequality, but he resisted policies designed to correct it.A better approach comes from John Rawls, who noted that life prospects are deeply influenced by contingencies of birth, including inborn talents, social class and luck.
So trustworthiness, realism or humility and the sense we must resist policies or practices which accept the welfare of some at the expense of others: that is where we might start pressing for a global economic order with some claim to be just.
If the pressure for implementation is low, passive implementation will occur, which means that the grassroots governments do not openly resist policies but implement policies perfunctorily without achieving the core objectives of the policies.
If anything, the co-option of the middle class worked too well; when Charles' successor King Phillip II demanded a ruinously large tax increase in the 1580s, the Cortes was too dependent on the Crown for money to effectively resist policies that would wreck the economy.
