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AmCham Policy Report 2016: Issue 2 - March 3
It is not often that the public gets a clear picture of how the state views the people. That view slides on a spectrum from servant to master. The ideal state serves society: it provides public goods and redistributes national income to ensure social justice and stability. The state is an abstract, however; it actually is composed of thousands of citizen agents. Those agents can turn the state into the master of the people in order to collect money for the benefit of an intertwined class of bureaucracy, politicians and lobbyists.Two recent policies may convince them to the point of resistance. Read the report...
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Transparency International Czech Republic asks MPs to push forward debate, adopt reform of political finance | OECD: Financing Democracy report
Transparency International Czech Republic asks Czech MPs to push forward debate and adopt reform of political party financing. The draft act has been waiting for its turn in the Chamber of Deputies for quite some time. The bill proposes establishing of an authority that would monitor political party financing, impose sanctions and be in charge of public oversight over political finance, among others. One of the problems TI Czech Republic mentioned in their analysis relates to "transparent accounts" of political parties; most political parties made publicly accessible information on money inflows only, and not the outflows...
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EconLab: Czech single-bid procurement in 2015: Czech Republic among worst EU member states
Single-bid procurement is a case of public procurement where there is only one bid. In 2015, there were 6,409 such tenders in the Czech Republic reaching total volume of EUR 2 bn. This is the highest number of such tenders recorded so far. Although labelled as highly exceptional form of public procurement, they accounted for approximately 1/3 of all tenders in the country, which places the Czech Republic into a group of the worst performing countries in the EU...
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