The reliance on a so-called Chinese box of holdings within holdings invites abuse, critics say, and is compounded by the way Italy's big family-controlled companies are governed at the top, with lots of family members on the board and weak checks on their power.
Turkey's institutions are young and relatively weak: checks and balances on a forceful prime minister (or a putative strong president) are all but non-existent.In the light of all this, an executive presidency partly modelled on France's sounds like a bad idea.
It is a cancer that has been devastating for nascent democracies with weak institutions, weak checks and balances, a population where losers of democracy outnumber the winners.
As Arellano-Gault (2000, p. 403) writes, NPM "is being applied despite a lack of solid institutional frameworks, rule of law, weak checks and balances, civil service systems, and effective accountability systems" that are considered prerequisites of NPM in many developed countries.
The London Assembly is a weaker check on his power than Parliament is for a prime minister.
Fortunate facts all, but hardly a guide for other places with weaker checks on leaders.
We rebuilt the scaffolds using these new links in order of priority from strongest (greatest weight) to weakest, checking for circular links at each step and discarding them.
The kingdom was, however, too weak to check the raids of the Magyars, which became increasingly frequent after 900.
He eluded Kronwall's weak stick check, split Kronwall and the other defenseman, Brad Stuart, and slipped the puck between Conklin's legs for his 24th goal.
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