Vested interests may also play a role.

But the fundamental explanation lies in a crony capitalist system with too many vested interests to maintain.

The paper s duty will remain to its readers and not to the private interests of its owners.

He claimed that the parliamentary system subordinates the national interest, or common good, to private interests of a parliament's representatives where only short sighted interests of individuals prevail.

After all, vested interests do not welcome challenges.

Economic change often happens not when vested interests are defeated, but when different strategies are used to pursue those interests.

Instead, the goal is a managed trade regime managed, that is, to serve the special interests that have long dominated trade policy in the West.

But Smith stressed that private interests always pursue selfish interests

Indeed, there was no economic malfunction that the two words vested interests could not account for.

Make those assumptions explicit, and the decisive role of vested interests evaporates.

The mission of the special procedures system

His administration is trapped more and more in the paralyzing grip of special interest groups.

Public officials should hold private interests at arm s length and never cozy up to them.

We have also attempted to restore independence and integrity to our institutions, held hostage by private and partisan interests.

Special procedures and the reform process

Finally, the High Commissioner stressed that a strong and effective special procedures system depended to a large extent on the support it received and on its ability to achieve outcomes.

Moreover, Friedman believed that even when private interests were not aligned with public interests, that government could not be relied on to fix the problem.

Opponents of nuclear power have suggested that self interest has compromised the Chernobyl Forum s integrity.

Economists love theories that place organized special interests at the root of all political evil.

The special interests of the indigenous people, including their right of ownership to their natural resources, must also be protected.

They highlighted the challenge of streamlining the reporting process without neglecting the specificities of each treaty.

Segment 1 the role and functions of the special procedures system

What the executive branch has relinquished, or been forced to give up, vested interests have seized.

Each island has its own vehicle registration plate system.

They also run large, sophisticated media campaigns aimed at persuading policymakers and the public that what is good for their special interest is good for the country.

In Canada, for example, it would be risky to overlook the special interests of Quebec.

There is the wall between those who heed the scientific evidence and those who pander to vested interests.

He has never been co opted by private interests, be they political, economic, or criminal.

If reformers are to win, they must be prepared to fight the world s most powerful vested interest.

It ensures that public rather than private interests guide decision making in achieving the Millennium Development Goals.

Eliminating special interest loopholes, like tax breaks for oil and gas, or for corporate jets, would not yield enough revenue to pay for a meaningful rate cut.

Some participants also encouraged the Expanded Bureau to devote a specific item to follow up on the country specific recommendations of the mandate holders.

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These special interests included Wall Street, Big Oil, the big health insurers, and arms manufacturers.

Yet the special interest groups have dominated the process, and Obama has failed to make any headway.

Give the local community enough control over its own affairs, Tocqueville argued, and one will see at a glance the close tie which unites private to general interest.

Why, then, are they maintaining policies that protect the special interest groups that dominate the service sector?

In such a world, private and social interests often diverge, as we have seen so dramatically in this crisis.

These questions should be considered calmly, with the higher interests of humankind in mind, setting aside the particular interest of any country in pursuing some hypothetical power that would reduce security for each and every one of us.

By contrast, subsidizing current, ineffective solar power or ethanol mostly wastes money while benefiting special interests.

For one thing, the lower the political system s transparency, representativeness, and accountability, the more likely it is that special interests will hijack the rules.

In both cases, the biggest winners were vested interests (Korea s business establishment and the Chinese Communist Party).

A new global agreement must be science based, not a lowest common denominator compromise watered down by vested interests.

Instead of formulating and implementing comprehensive and transparent reforms, the government would have no choice but to continue to indulge and, above all, avoid threatening vested interests.

Unfortunately, strong vested interests have spent millions of dollars on spreading misinformation about climate change.