Problem
Excessive government control
Experimental visualization of narrower problems
Other Names:
Excessive government interferenceExcessive government intervention in society
Inappropriate government intervention
Nature:
The responsibilities of government include the obligations to administer, adjudicate, legislate, and, by means of police and various punitive measures, to enforce the law. Government defence obligations also require it to maintain military forces; and its financial obligations require it to acquire vast sums of money. Governments may use any of these instruments, required for fulfilling their obligations, to interfere with personal freedom, for example, by over-regulation of free enterprises, by over-taxation, by censorship, by curfews, by compulsory military service, and in countless other ways that violate human rights including the right to life.
Broader Problems:
IntrusionIllegitimate political regimes Narrower Problems:
Over-regulationCoercive legislationRestrictive legislationRestrictive social policiesCovert intelligence agency operationsNationalization of foreign investmentsDomination of individuals by institutionsPolitical interference with port operationsPolitical opposition to administrative actionInappropriate government intervention in agricultureExcessive government intervention in the private sector Related Problems:
Lack of social discipline Aggravates:
CensorshipDictatorshipPolitical crimePolitical purgesOfficial secrecyVagueness of lawsQualified amnestyOver-centralizationOutdated regulationsResistance to changeGovernment propagandaPolitical imprisonmentTotalitarian democracyDenial of human rightsHarassment of the mediaBroadcasting propagandaInternment without trialFalse political evidenceDenial of access to newsHarassment of journalistsBlocked land negotiationsDenial of political rightsForced political confessionsOverdependence on governmentBiased government informationComplex government regulationsPolitical confiscation of propertyRestrictions on freedom of worshipInadequate government publicationsRefusal to grant licences to mediaRestrictions on freedom of informationBureaucracy as an organizational diseaseUnjust allocation of government contractsMis-classification of political prisonersProliferation of public sector institutionsMisuse of postal surveillance by governmentsRestrictions on news coverage of legal affairsInefficient mobilization of government revenueMaintenance of political dossiers on individualsMisuse of electronic surveillance by governmentsConflict of laws on international restriction of information Reduces:
Aerial piracyAssassinationCivil disordersPsychotic violenceUncontrolled banditryNational disintegrationInadequate firearm regulationDenial of the right to social security in capitalist systems Strategies:
Government forcing of economic developmentUsing government interventionUsing government interventionUsing government intervention References:
Second Vatican Council: Gaudium et Spes: Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World Subject(s):
Society → Society ??Government → Government ??
Government → Sanctions??
Cybernetics → Control??
Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
Problem Type:
F: Fuzzy exceptional problems Date of last update
08.11.2017 – 16:07 CET