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Examples of bureaucracy

bureaucracy
This new political climate fundamentally altered the nature of the relationship between the bureaucracy and elected officials.
The central bureaucracy was poorly equipped to deal with the stream of complaints and requests for adjudication and clarification pouring in from the provinces.
Access to government positions is conditional upon explicit support of the ruling party for appointments in the lower echelon bureaucracy.
Within the bureaucracy of the multi-tiered health service, there was little prospect of them exercising any real user influence.
It also sought to restructure the existing health bureaucracy.
Individual decisions to insulate agencies from presidential control collectively and cumulatively are making the bureaucracy more difficult for presidents to manage over time.
Of twenty-four administrative elite interviewees, the apparatchiki accounted for fourteen, and two others were inherited from the pre-1991 state bureaucracy.
The most ominous form was government-sponsored health insurance, with its threat of intrusive federal bureaucracies.
Bureaucracy and regulations were, and are, fundamentally a response to rising costs, growing complexity of activity, and a growing number of obligations to fulfil.
Because bureaucracies know more than their principals about the work they have been ' contracted' to do, information is asymmetrical.
Providing patronage opportunities often comes at the expense of setting up professional bureaucracies and the efficient running of a program.
The bits of bureaucracy that mattered were run by important princes or by commoners very close to the court.
Delegation of authority to organisations outside the government bureaucracy will only be done when there is enough assurance that it will not create problems.
Gompers viewed the notion of industrial commissions as an effort by intellectuals to establish a bureaucracy that would oversee workers.
Additionally, civil service bureaucracies can be expanded and disbanded 'to task', according to the circumstances that arise.
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Collocations withbureaucracy

bureaucracy

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bloated bureaucracy
Paradoxically, democracy fosters division, the climate of 'rights' proposed by organized groups and corruption at even the most modest levels of the bloated bureaucracy.
central bureaucracy
The central bureaucracy was poorly equipped to deal with the stream of complaints and requests for adjudication and clarification pouring in from the provinces.
cumbersome bureaucracy
I agree that we do not want to have cumbersome bureaucracy standing in the way of delivery.
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