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"ref": "1993, Kevin Dowd, Laissez Faire Banking, page 301:",
"text": "The problem is aggravated even further by the absence of any reliable mechanism to close down zombie institutions before they can inflict too much damage on other parties.",
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"ref": "2010, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Budget, Economic and Budget Challenges for the Short and Long Term, page 27:",
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"ref": "2014, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Financial Services. Subcommittee on Monetary Policy and Trade, The Fed Turns 100:",
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"ref": "2023, Petra Mikulan, Michalinos Zembylas, Working with Theories of Refusal and Decolonization in Higher Education, page 2016:",
"text": "The rewards for going along to get along serve the zombie institution.",
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"ref": "2023, Sebastian Mayer, Research Handbook on NATO, page 358:",
"text": "Leading realists thus predicted that after 1990 the Alliance would collapse or become a zombie institution, that is, surviving in name only, given that the existential military threat melted away after the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact (Waltz 1993, p. 76).",
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"ref": "2024, Andrew F. Cooper, The Concertation Impulse in World Politics, page 317:",
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