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chokonen888 wrote:Japan's unique political process...beginning to wonder if we should just start calling Abe "glorious leader."
- In some countries like Denmark, Malaysia, Australia and New Zealand, the prime minister has the de facto power to call an election at will. This was also the case in the United Kingdom until the passage of the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011.
- In Israel, parliament may vote in order to call an election or pass a vote of no confidence against the government.
- Other countries only permit an election to be called in the event of a vote of no confidence against the government, a supermajority vote in favour of an early election or prolonged deadlock in parliament. These requirements can still be circumvented. For example, in Germany in 2005, Gerhard Schröder deliberately allowed his government to lose a confidence motion, in order to call an early election.
- In Sweden, the government may call a snap election at will, but the newly elected Riksdag is only elected fill out the previous Riksdag's term. The last time this option was used was in 1958.
- Norway is unique among parliamentary systems in that the Storting always serves the whole of its four-year term.
wagyl wrote:chokonen888 wrote:Japan's unique political process...beginning to wonder if we should just start calling Abe "glorious leader."
It may be outside your experience in your home country, but legislatures without a fixed term are definitely the most common type in Parliamentary systems. This is not unique.
wagyl wrote:Just off the top of my head, Italy comes pretty damn close.
Greece is a good one too: elections in June and November of 1989, and in both May and June in 2012, a total of twelve elections in the last 20 years.
Wage Slave wrote:When you think of stable competent government, sound financial management and lack of corruption
chokonen888 wrote:OK....so this type of shit is far from unique to Japan, point taken.Wage Slave wrote:When you think of stable competent government, sound financial management and lack of corruption
...this type of thing has a great track record
"Abe Raises Diet Morale With Traditional Japanese Dance"
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Wage Slave wrote:chokonen888 wrote:OK....so this type of shit is far from unique to Japan, point taken.Wage Slave wrote:When you think of stable competent government, sound financial management and lack of corruption
...this type of thing has a great track record
In relative terms, yes. In absolute terms perhaps great is the wrong word. That said, to quote Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., "I like paying taxes, with them I buy civilization.”
The lazy and casual view that all government is always and has always been bad and we are dependent on the free market for anything of value is extreme in it's folly and misrepresentation. There is no way anyone could operate a decent sized business without the government providing the legal framework, regulatory framework, physical infrastructure and basic inputs like security and education.
Wage Slave wrote:The lazy and casual view that all government is always and has always been bad and we are dependent on the free market for anything of value is extreme in it's folly and misrepresentation. There is no way anyone could operate a decent sized business without the government providing the legal framework, regulatory framework, physical infrastructure and basic inputs like security and education.
chokonen888 wrote:
Perception is not always a reflection of reality...and the problem with the corruption in this cuntry is it's embedded in the business culture so much that they don't perceive it as wrong:
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Land of the cartels, gov. run and otherwise....complacent J-consumers may not ask questions or demand competition but this type of shit doesn't make for good competitive overseas effort though
Mike Oxlong wrote:I'm sure there's more corruption here than meets the eye, hence "is said", as in "is supposed to be/is alleged to be". I don't, however, have a lot of time in living in another country besides Kanata, so I don't have any personal knowledge of how Japan stacks up against Russia or Mexico or Italy or any other place said to be corrupt.
chokonen888 wrote:To be sure, no place is corruption free...I just think here there are many ways that it happens here that [...] doesn't get considered corruption
Yokohammer wrote:Privilege for the upper/power class was simply accepted for way too long here and the vestiges still remain. Plenty of people in power still think that is or should be the norm, which is one of the reasons there are so many people who only care about privilege in or trying to get into politics. Sort of a mini Tono-sama mindset. Politics and bureaucracy were just a path to privilege (and immunity), and graft was just a way of doing business not very long ago. To many they still are.
Samurai_Jerk wrote:chokonen888 wrote:To be sure, no place is corruption free...I just think here there are many ways that it happens here that [...] doesn't get considered corruption
Sort of like the legal bribery of campaign financing in the US.
Yokohammer wrote:I can also tell you (from first hand experience ... as an observer) that it even happens in hospitals here. Some people believe it's a good idea to grease the doctor's palm a bit before a major operation, for example. "Oh doctor, here's a good book I found that I thought you might like." Doctor opens book, sees it contains a 100,000 yen "tip," closes book and accepts it without further comment. I am not making this up.
chokonen888 wrote:Yokohammer wrote:I can also tell you (from first hand experience ... as an observer) that it even happens in hospitals here. Some people believe it's a good idea to grease the doctor's palm a bit before a major operation, for example. "Oh doctor, here's a good book I found that I thought you might like." Doctor opens book, sees it contains a 100,000 yen "tip," closes book and accepts it without further comment. I am not making this up.
That's pretty nutty....especially when some of the doctors I know say shit like "I wouldn't let anyone I work with operate or even diagnose me!"
Yokohammer wrote:I can also tell you (from first hand experience ... as an observer) that it even happens in hospitals here. Some people believe it's a good idea to grease the doctor's palm a bit before a major operation, for example. "Oh doctor, here's a good book I found that I thought you might like." Doctor opens book, sees it contains a 100,000 yen "tip," closes book and accepts it without further comment. I am not making this up.
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Coligny wrote:Yokohammer wrote:I can also tell you (from first hand experience ... as an observer) that it even happens in hospitals here. Some people believe it's a good idea to grease the doctor's palm a bit before a major operation, for example. "Oh doctor, here's a good book I found that I thought you might like." Doctor opens book, sees it contains a 100,000 yen "tip," closes book and accepts it without further comment. I am not making this up.
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From what I saw at home it work reverse. The envelope comes under chokluts after the operation as a thank you.
And it's also done between doctors. So it might involve more twisted dynamics than simple corruption. Back then, always kept the chokluts... Money usually put in a piggybank to pay for the nurse/team party fees.
Despite all his flaws, it was one of the first thing explicitly forbidden by the new chief of the municipal hospital... Signs everywhere and all...
Yokohammer wrote:... Yep, it's really kinda stupid because no amount of palm greasing is magically going to turn a crap doctor into a good one.
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