But, he said, Mr. McAuliffe resisted because it was too similar to continuing an unwieldy system of "co-chairs".
China badly needs a better system of co-ordinating competing bureaucratic interests in the event of a foreign-policy crisis.
Europe's biggest carmaker is a famed practitioner of the Mitbestimmung system of co-operation between managers and workers.
Deng Xiaoping instituted a program of economic liberalization, which dismantled the system of co-operatives that many had relied on for medical care.
CO-PAYS AND CO-INSURANCE Another trend to watch for is employers' changing from a system of co-payments to co-insurance.
After a peace agreement in 1991, the United Nations brokered an election that produced a new coalition of enemies, a system of co-prime ministers that yoked together Mr. Hun Sen and the royalist leader, Prince Norodom Ranariddh.
She urged the British unions to accept a version of the German system of co-determination (Mitbestimmung) and supported the Bullock report (1975), against the opposition of many on the left.
Today's system of co-payments and deductibles for birth control compromises the health of families, wastes money and sends a terrible message to women like my daughter: when it comes to planning your family, you're on your own.
The German system of co-determination, which gives unions half the seats on companies' supervisory boards, is coming under huge strain as financial markets apply pressure on firms to put their shareholders first.
At the heart of VW's problem, they have suggested, is Germany's system of "co-determination", under which companies with more than 2,000 workers must draw at least half of their supervisory board members either from the workforce directly or from trade unions.
