Government resistance to institutional change

The general response of government to the speed and scale of global changes has been a reluctance to recognize sufficiently the need to change themselves. The environmental and developmental challenges are interdependent and integrated, requiring comprehensive approaches and popular participation. These requirements are difficult for national and international institutions that have been established on the basis of narrow preoccupations and compartmentalized concerns.

1. Resistance to change
2. Government inaction

1. Preservation of obsolete systems
2. Loss of institutional credibility
3. Irrelevant institutions
4. Institutional fragmentation
5. Delays in implementation of social change

1. Lack of political will
2. Bureaucratic resistance to self-review

1. Transforming administrative structures
2. Resisting institutional change
3. Resisting change
4. Managing change
5. Accepting institutional change

1. Self-government
2. Resistance [D]
3. Resistance [C]
4. Reluctance
5. Nonresistance
6. Government
7. Changeableness
8. Change