"There have been too many artificial separations of institutions that are already working together".
But independent Cyprus began with de facto separations of institutions and municipal governments.
Clinton favors more intensive regulations of the banking system but has stopped short of calling for wholesale separation of financial institutions.
I am eager to see an election cycle free of the manipulation of religion, respectful of people of all religions and no religion, and helpful in advancing the constitutional vision of separation between the institutions of religion and the institutions of government, appreciation for our democracy and a recovery of political advocacy characterized by civility.
Separation of the two institutions, the college trustees declared, should liberate the museum from that misperception and lead it out of its financial troubles.
There is a need to increase transparency by strengthening the separation of powers and institutions that will mutually reinforce each other, and by building civic groups that will provide the informal political education to society.
Public reactions incorporate cultural factors such as the degree of separation between groups, strength of institutions over space, time and social roles, and society's tolerance for uncertainty and ambiguity.
As another older banker and one who has experienced both the pre- and post-Glass-Steagall world, I would agree with Paul A. Volcker (and also Mervyn King, governor of the Bank of England) that some kind of separation between institutions that deal primarily in the capital markets and those involved in more traditional deposit-taking and working-capital finance makes sense.
The assimilation we need is civic assimilation, i.e., acceptance of the value system on which our liberal Western civilization is based, including individual freedom, democratic institutions, separation of church and state, etc.
We consider a model of constitutional (mechanism) design with separation of powers where different institutions are assigned different tasks.
