In severe crises, governments base their decisions on what other countries do

As a fan of science I like this: we do need to try new things. As a citizen of Sweden I don't like this because our novel ideas are often worse than the established way and when the ideas fail we don't go back to the previous model.

Our school system is still broken, while Finland took all the good from our experiment-without-a-control (and performed their own crazy experiments that lucked out) and now have the best education system in the world. One would think Sweden would copy them. But nope.