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  2. Government failure - Wikipedia

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    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. Demand-side failures include preference-revelation problems and the illogic of ...

  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. 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.

  5. Political Instability Task Force - Wikipedia

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    Genocide and politicide events involve the promotion, execution, and/or implied consent of sustained policies by governing elites or their agents or in the case of civil war, either of the contending authorities that result in the deaths of a substantial portion of a communal group or politicized non communal group. In genocides the victimized ...

  6. Institutional failure - Wikipedia

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    Institutional failure may refer to: Government failure; Market failure This page was last edited on 28 ...

  7. Economic collapse - Wikipedia

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    Economic collapse, also called economic meltdown, is any of a broad range of poor economic conditions, ranging from a severe, prolonged depression with high bankruptcy rates and high unemployment (such as the Great Depression of the 1930s), to a breakdown in normal commerce caused by hyperinflation (such as in Weimar Germany in the 1920s), or even an economically caused sharp rise in the death ...

  8. First Amendment to the United States Constitution - Wikipedia

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    Since there is a limited number of frequencies for non-cable television and radio stations, the government licenses them to various companies. However, the Supreme Court has ruled that the problem of scarcity does not allow the raising of a First Amendment issue. The government may restrain broadcasters, but only on a content-neutral basis.

  9. Public choice - Wikipedia

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    The government agent stands to benefit from support from the party seeking influence, while that party seeks to benefit by implementing public policy that benefits them. This essentially results in the capture and reallocation of benefits, wasting the benefit and any resources used from being put to productive use in society.