There is a good reason for this docility.

First and foremost, Thailand s lower classes have decided that docility is a thing of the past. They are angry and frustrated by the status quo.

The years of the biggest transformation demands in Latin America or those of its docility to economic orthodoxy will not come back because we can remember them.

But the relative docility of rank and file workers on trade issues must ultimately be attributed to something else altogether the safety nets erected by the welfare state.

Rather, Japan has initiated a series of abrupt policy changes, while the US, only dimly aware of the significance of its relative decline, assumes that Japan s decades long docility will continue.

Given the economy s solid performance and the docility of China s population, there seems little doubt that Hu s twenty first century market dictatorship will preserve the Party s mandate to continue ruling for now.

Hu is due to remain in power until 2012. Given the economy s solid performance and the docility of China s population, there seems little doubt that Hu s twenty first century market dictatorship will preserve the Party s mandate to continue ruling for now.

The comparative docility of infectious diseases like smallpox has contributed to a degree of complacency about the magnitude of the risks of refusing vaccination. When an epidemic actually begins, people quickly change their minds, and demand the rapid production and distribution of vaccines.