Local organizations have more power than they realize to influence national outcomes. (animalsheltering.org)
The problem is simply that to change the type of national outcomes from majoritarian to more moderate, almost certainly an alteration to the constituency link is required. (nextleft.org)
If wage negotiations, for example, were to build in current low expected price increases — of the order of 2 to 3 per cent — that kind of behaviour would clearly produce better national outcomes than if larger increases (not backed by genuine productivity gains) were pursued and granted, only to be followed by a tightening of policy. (rba.gov.au)