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  2. Government failure - Wikipedia

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    Examples of government failure include regulatory capture and regulatory arbitrage. Government failure may arise because of unanticipated consequences of a government intervention, or because an inefficient outcome is more politically feasible than a Pareto improvement to it. Government failure can be on both the demand side and the supply side.

  3. Failed state - Wikipedia

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    A failed state is a state that has lost its ability to fulfill fundamental security and development functions, lacking effective control over its territory and borders. . Common characteristics of a failed state include a government incapable of tax collection, law enforcement, security assurance, territorial control, political or civil office staffing, and infrastructure maintenan

  4. State collapse - Wikipedia

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    State collapse is a sudden dissolution of a sovereign state. [1] It is often used to describe extreme situations in which state institutions dissolve rapidly. [2] [1]When a new regime moves in, often led by the military, civil society typically fails to rally around the central government, and societal actors fend for themselves at the local level. [1]

  5. Bhopal disaster - Wikipedia

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    Madhya Pradesh government's finance department allocated ₹ 874 million (US$10 million) for victim relief in July 1985. [65] [66] Widow pension of ₹ 200 (US$2.30)/per month (later ₹ 750 (US$8.70)) was provided. The government also decided to pay ₹ 1,500 (US$17) to families with monthly income ₹ 500 (US$5.80) or less. As a result of the ...

  6. United States involvement in regime change - Wikipedia

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    Since the 19th century, the United States government has participated and interfered, both overtly and covertly, in the replacement of many foreign governments. In the latter half of the 19th century, the U.S. government initiated actions for regime change mainly in Latin America and the southwest Pacific, including the Spanish–American and Philippine–American wars.

  7. Governance failure - Wikipedia

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    Governance failure may also refer to what can also be described as policy failures − the effectiveness, efficiency, and resilience of specific policies. [1] A frequently mentioned example of a policy failure is the War on Drugs.

  8. Criticism of democracy - Wikipedia

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    As far as Rousseau is concerned, elections favor the incumbent government officials or the citizens with the strongest personalities, which results in hereditary aristocracy. Manin further evinces the aristocratic nature of representative governments by contrasting them with the ancient style of selection by lot .

  9. Political Instability Task Force - Wikipedia

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    [3] [4] Four distinct types of state failure events are included in the dataset: revolutionary wars, ethnic wars, adverse regime changes, and genocides and politicides. The Problem Set data includes the following information on each case: country, month and year of onset, month and year of ending (unless ongoing as of December 31 of the current ...