No institutional framework can survive unless it serves the material interests of its constituency. In the nineteenth century, when the Tunisian craft guilds failed to adapt to industrialization, they became irrelevant, and the amins, or guild masters, were left as figureheads in shell institutions.
任何制度框架都无法生存，除非它符合所在选区的物质利益。19世纪，适应不了工业化变革的突尼斯手工业行会变得无关紧要，行会会长们（amins）被留在空壳机构中有名无实。今天，欧洲机构可能面临同样的命运。