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Politicians Who Pursued Market Liberalisation
Politicians Who Pursued Market Liberalisation
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5 in common: Domingo Cavallo, Roger Douglas and 3 more
Market liberalisation can mean freer prices, lower trade barriers, fewer entry restrictions or a transfer of state enterprises to private owners. These historical cases compare the actual...
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Politicians Whose Quiet Administrative Work Mattered
Politicians Whose Quiet Administrative Work Mattered
by curious_compiler  • 
3 in common: Trevor Manuel, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and 1 more
Speeches and campaigns get remembered. The work that actually changes lives, setting up a payroll, running a rationing system, rebuilding a tax office or making a new school system function...
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Wealthy Collectors Who Opened Their Collections to the Public
Wealthy Collectors Who Opened Their Collections to the Public
by list_wrangler  • 
In common: Andrew Mellon
Rich people buy art for many reasons; a smaller number decide the public should see it. This list looks at collectors, from a Regency architect to today's luxury tycoons, who put their art into...
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Prime Ministers Best Understood Through Their Cabinets
Prime Ministers Best Understood Through Their Cabinets
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In common: David Lloyd George
British prime ministers are not presidents. They govern through a cabinet of rivals, allies and would-be successors, and many premierships are best explained by who sat round the table: the...
Politics
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Politicians Who Took Unpopular Decisions with Lasting Effects
Politicians Who Took Unpopular Decisions with Lasting Effects
by curious_compiler  • 
4 in common: Roger Douglas, Paul Martin and 2 more
Politicians like to say that history will vindicate the decision voters hated. Sometimes it does. Often it does not, and unpopularity on its own proves nothing about courage or wisdom. This list...
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American Cabinet Members Whose Decisions Shaped an Era
American Cabinet Members Whose Decisions Shaped an Era
by curious_compiler  • 
3 in common: Henry Morgenthau Jr., Andrew Mellon and 1 more
Presidents get the credit, but cabinet secretaries run departments with their own legal powers, and some of their decisions outlasted the administrations they served. This list is for readers who...
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Political Leaders Who Made an Impact After Leaving Office
Political Leaders Who Made an Impact After Leaving Office
by curious_compiler  • 
3 in common: Paul Martin, Fernando Henrique Cardoso and 1 more
Leaving high office can open another chapter of public work. These 25 figures took on mediation, health programmes, education partnerships, research commissions, advocacy and institutional...
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Politicians Who Made Complex Policy Understandable
Politicians Who Made Complex Policy Understandable
by curious_compiler  • 
2 in common: Tharman Shanmugaratnam and Manmohan Singh
A useful policy explanation lets you follow the mechanism, see who bears a cost and recognise what remains uncertain. These twenty historical examples are selected for those qualities, rather than...
Politics
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Leaders Whose Constitutional Changes Still Shape Politics
Leaders Whose Constitutional Changes Still Shape Politics
by curious_compiler  • 
2 in common: Alexander Hamilton and David Lloyd George
Constitutional change lasts through rules about who can govern, who can stop them and how those rules can be changed again. These figures helped promote, negotiate or implement settlements with...
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Prime Ministers Who Were More Effective Than Charismatic
Prime Ministers Who Were More Effective Than Charismatic
by curious_compiler  • 
2 in common: Gordon Brown and Manmohan Singh
For readers more interested in what governments deliver than how leaders perform on television, these premierships offer useful case studies in legislation, negotiation and administration. My...
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Politicians with Distinctive Parliamentary Speaking Styles
Politicians with Distinctive Parliamentary Speaking Styles
by curious_compiler  • 
2 in common: David Lloyd George and Manmohan Singh
A parliamentary voice can be distinctive without being the loudest in the chamber. These selections use named speeches and exchanges to compare structure, humour, analogy, personal testimony and...
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Christian Democratic Leaders Who Shaped European Politics
Christian Democratic Leaders Who Shaped European Politics
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In common: Wolfgang Schäuble
Christian democracy built much of postwar Western Europe: the social market economy, the founding treaties of the European Union and long-running governments in Germany, Italy and the Benelux...
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Politicians Who Changed the State's Role in Industry
Politicians Who Changed the State's Role in Industry
by curious_compiler  • 
In common: Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Who owns a factory is only one part of industrial policy. Governments can also supply finance, build infrastructure, regulate entry, restrict exports or pool authority across borders. These...
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Leaders Who Rebuilt Trust After a Political Crisis
Leaders Who Rebuilt Trust After a Political Crisis
by curious_compiler  • 
In common: Gordon Brown
After a scandal, a coup or a collapse, every new leader promises to restore trust. Few build anything that lasts. This list picks leaders who inherited a defined crisis, from Watergate and...
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Political Figures Who Shaped Post-Communist Transitions
Political Figures Who Shaped Post-Communist Transitions
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In common: Leszek Balcerowicz
After 1989 the former communist states took sharply different paths: shock therapy or gradualism, voucher privatisation or sales to investors, opened secret-police files or a thick line under the...
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Presidents Whose Domestic Reforms Outlasted Them
Presidents Whose Domestic Reforms Outlasted Them
by curious_compiler  • 
In common: Fernando Henrique Cardoso
Presidents are often judged on wars and summits, but the reforms that quietly keep running long after they leave office tell you more about what governing can achieve. This list picks presidents...
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American Political Speechwriters Worth Knowing
American Political Speechwriters Worth Knowing
by curious_compiler  • 
In common: Alexander Hamilton
Most presidential speeches are drafted by people the audience never sees, and some of the most quoted lines in American politics came from them. This list introduces the writers themselves, from...
Politics
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Leaders Who Built Social Insurance Systems
Leaders Who Built Social Insurance Systems
by curious_compiler  • 
In common: David Lloyd George
Social insurance pools protection against risks such as sickness, unemployment, disability and loss of earnings in old age. These historical cases compare the people who secured laws, designed...
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Political Figures Who Shaped Scottish Devolution
Political Figures Who Shaped Scottish Devolution
by list_wrangler  • 
In common: Gordon Brown
The Scottish Parliament that reconvened in 1999 was the product of decades of argument, and its powers have been renegotiated three times since. This list picks the people who shaped it, from the...
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Businesspeople Who Funded Long-Term Scientific Research
Businesspeople Who Funded Long-Term Scientific Research
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In common: Andrew Mellon
Scientific research needs more than a launch announcement. These 25 businesspeople helped finance institutes, endowments and recurring programmes that gave researchers time, facilities or...
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