Countries, particularly in the african context in promoting democracy within a country like zimbabwe . Thank you. Sarah, do you want to tackle that . No . I can say a word. Maybe others will have something to say, too. One of the things i take from th tsvetas comments neighbors countries have a lot to offer, but they dont seize the opportunity. Knowing about this specific case, its the same for neighboring states to not take opportunity to play a constructive role with better insight, perhaps, into local and political dynamics. And one way to assume a lot of economic and other forms of leverage. So i would i think, again, im not the original expert, but what ive seen is that original actors have a very Important Role to play. And sometimes, it takes encouragement to realize that potential. Sometimes, that encouragement is by the people in the recipient country that are striving for democracy. Acting both solo activists, as well as politicians, particularly asking them to articulate the
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So transportation ballot measures were a mixed bag. Like youre talking about earlier, the federal gas tax has not been raised in about 20 years. Most states have raised theirs in about 20 years, and states are constantly worried about finding money for infrastructure to pay for road repair and bridge repair. It is an issue that voters really care about. There was good news on tuesday in texas, wisconsin and maryland. Voters approved measures either to increase or protect transportation funding. In texas they are not going to put a part of the revenues from oil and gas taxes toward paying for transportation. Texas particularly as big traffic problems there. Never brought on by the oil boom and all the workers that came there. So its a big issue that voters care about there. And in both wisconsin and maryland they voted to basically lock up their transportation funds so they can no longer be used for general purposes which is something that often happened in the past and he pleaded their
Opportunity to give me a line rehearsed to please u. S. Donors. Its evidence that i collected indirectly and that came up in conversations about central and Eastern European democracy promotion. Again, my conclusions are not to dispute problems with u. S. Democracy promotion or its unintended negative consequences. But just to highlight that it can and has mattered and that its an investment whose payoffs go up and down in the short and long term as we saw in the first panel. But its an important investment. In conclusion, allow me to return to the merits and limitations of the central and Eastern Europeans as democracy promoters. Again, to discover those i talked to their recipients in their neighborhood. Those recipients highlighted three important merits. The first one is the firsthand experience with democratizatio fl that they have. A lot of the individuals were the organizing source of the domestic breakthroughs. They have this unique experience with this as well as moral authori
They dont care that much if they like the car, they want to like it better than what their competitors are offering. In 1978 a statistical techwas d pennsylvania often called trade off analysis. Since 1978 its been used more than numerous times because a lot of private Sector Companies dont want to build a product and see how it works. They want to do Research First before they put the car into the factory. This tradeoff analysis has the benefits of identifying the preferred package, including costs, as someone once told me if youre doing analysis, the one is the least attractive. And identifies the impacted of each feature on preference. So, if i can give you the example of a car. A car can have numerous features. It can have engines of different size, transmission transmissions of different quality, a backup camera or not, different types of sound system, Leather Seats or cloth seats. Each feature has a cost. And there could be easily 300 combinations. Which is the best . They want t