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...there are two reasons to think that may not happen. First, faced with swelling resentment from doctors and teachers over a blizzard of detailed performance targets spewing from London, he is planning to give them more money and autonomy. That means a less centralized vision for reform. And, say several people close to him, Blair is changing. "He's more confident," says one. "There's a serenity that's new." In this case, will the personal become the political? If, as Blair says, the success of his reforms depends on decentralizing power, the fate of the two Britains may depend...
...year-long one-party rule of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or P.R.I. Fox spent most of his business career working in Mexico City for Coca-Cola, the quintessential American company, and he likes to say--much as Ronald Reagan did--that U.S. business practices can be used to reform federal government. More important, he is culturally a norteno, given to blunt talk, a distrust of the Mexico City bureaucracy and open admiration for the U.S. His National Action Party, or P.A.N., reinvented itself in the northern states of Chihuahua and Baja California, reshaping itself in the 1980s from an ideological...
...much after his election as he did before. Fox likes to hit the streets in preplanned walking tours but has genuine encounters with voters along the way, while cameras record the sometimes testy back-and-forth. And Fox has crisscrossed his country to rally support for his tax-reform plan, which would place new levies on food, medicine and books as part of an overhaul of the notoriously inefficient tax system. If some of this salesmanship sounds familiar, that's because Fox's communications director, Francisco Ortiz, twice visited the Clinton White House to study how the 42nd President accomplished...
...became an officially nonpartisan civil servant last year in charge of 63 people trying to make government work smarter. "This government is obsessed with results," he says. How will it get them? Spending more is crucial but not enough. "All politicians recognize there will have to be radical reform of the structures of public service if performance is really going to improve...
...recent weeks, world events have pushed the presidential campaigns out of the immediate public spotlight. Violence has resurfaced in the Middle East, and democratic reform seems promising in Yugoslavia. Environmental and health concerns have prompted the call for a multi-national response. Fueled by technologies that know no political borders, the economies of nations have become ever more intertwined...