Problem
Irrelevant institutions
Experimental visualization of narrower problems
Other Names:
Irrelevant forms of governanceIrrelevant policy-making initiatives
Outdated organizations
Irrelevant organizations
Incidence:
In 1997 in Germany, the President acknowledged an incapacity to act on the recognition of the urgent need to modernize the economy and society. The postwar monuments of stability and consensus were demonstrably inadequate to the challenge. Traditionally reliable unions, banks, currency, consensus-capitalism and government itself, all appeared seriously diminished in their capacity to regulate society, to sustain widespread prosperity, or to surivive intact the changes imposed by worldwide competition.
Narrower Problems:
Obsolete industriesInsolvent institutionsOutdated regulationsOutdated religious formsOutmoded education systemInadequate primary health carePersistence of outmoded conceptsOutdated labour negotiation proceduresInappropriate local administrative organizationStagnated development of agricultural productionFailure of the zoo as an educational institutionInstitutional preoccupation with obsolete problems Related Problems:
ConservatismCollapse of common valuesRigidity and inadaptability in the agedRestrictive patterns of tradition-bound lifestyle Aggravates:
DiscouragementObsolete methodsOutdated researchOutdated databasesInappropriate policiesInappropriate assumptionsOutdated judicial precedentOutdated property assessmentsTokenistic meeting resolutionsIrrelevant scientific activityLag in policy conceptualizationIrrelevant available informationReduced access to institutional resources Subject(s):
Government → Government Policy-making → Policy
Social Activity → Organization
Societal Problems → Obsolescence
Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
Problem Type:
F: Fuzzy exceptional problems Date of last update
04.10.2020 – 22:48 CEST