Cold War logic on either side of its divide lent support to ruling elites across the Muslim world as they placed their survival in power ahead of the need to work out some institutional arrangement allowing for participation of the widest segment of the population in meeting the requirements of democracy and socioeconomic progress.

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IPBES-1 also requested UNESCO, UNEP, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to establish an institutional link with the Platform through a collaborative partnership arrangement for the work of IPBES and its Secretariat.

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Madison and the Boys who created the U.S. Constitution attempted to guard against democracy running amok in this fashion by constructing a delicately balanced arrangement of limited government with separated and divided powers, and by erecting institutional checks and balances.

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