Word Finder - bureaucracy

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Government by bureaus or their administrators or officers.

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(organizational theory) A system of administration based upon organisation into bureaus, division of labour, a hierarchy of authority, etc., designed to dispose of a large body of work in a routine manner.

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At that time the administration replaced the system of patronage in the civil service with a bureaucracy.

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The body of officers and administrators, especially of a government.

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The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy. (apocryphal quip)

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Excessive red tape and routine in any administration, body or behaviour.

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The head of the civil service promised to clamp down on bureaucracy.

These honorary justices are mainly recruited from the ranks of the higher bureaucracy and the army.

His next job was to restore the bureaucracy by which Henry I had organized the country.

The Church was not only organized like a modern bureaucracy, but performed many of the functions of a modern State.

The bureaucracy, the minor, landholders, the towns, and the clergy refused to join in the rising, and lent their aid for its suppression, because they were unwilling to see anarchy recommence.

He was educated at Warsaw and studied law at the university in St Petersburg before he entered the bureaucracy in the department of justice, in which he rose rapidly to be assistant solicitorgeneral in Warsaw, then solicitor-general in St Petersburg, and in 1881 director of the state police.

The bureaucracy became a refuge for the nobles, and above all for the bourgeois, whose fixed incomes were lowered by the influx of precious metals from the New World, while the wages of artisans rose.

There must be a drive to reduce bureaucracy in the skills sector.

Such is the starting point for the soviet bureaucracy.

Some bloated bureaucracy parceling out the cash to the various national telecom carriers?

And we will sweep away the cumbersome bureaucracy of traditional Job Centers.

We must be with the masses against the splitting and treacherous trade-union bureaucracy.

The ruling bureaucracy of the Second International is the least independent, the most cowardly and corrupted section of bourgeois society.

Alongside the new bureaucracy, the old estates survived in somnolent inactivity, and even in Hungary, though the ancient constitution was left untouched, the diet was only summoned four times during the reign, and reforms were carried out, without protest, by royal ordinance.

Dean's patience with bureaucracy was thin during the best of times, but dealing with various branches of social services over the past winter stretched and frazzled his tolerance to the limit.

The trade union bureaucracy For nine days the working class was solidly behind the miners.

The labor bureaucracy is an integral part of bourgeois society.

The bureaucracy is practically unassailable in the old unions.

There was lots of bureaucracy and no central office to sort everything out.

He says his company is quite pro-active with good staff and ideas but is stymied by the horrendously complicated bureaucracy of the railroad.

At present, targets are all too conflicting, serving no real purpose, creating an additional tier of bureaucracy.

Might it not simply add a further layer to an already top-heavy aid bureaucracy?

This system had the merit of counteracting any abuse of power by the bureaucracy.

Before World War I Britain and the US were characterized by an absence of militarism and to a considerable degree by lack of bureaucracy.

Real improvement will not be achieved by simply giving more money to a burgeoning bureaucracy.

In addition, all new policies will be scrutinized for unnecessary bureaucracy.

It wants to do deals with sections of the labor bureaucracy instead.

The trade union bureaucracy, including the 'left' bureaucrats supported by the Communist Party, were heavily implicated in productivity deals.

However, in a period of acute class struggle, the bureaucracy of the trade unions inevitably plays a treacherous role.

Stalin and his faction personified the bureaucracy, and their victory represented the consummation of the bureaucracy's transformation into an elite.

This was how the utterly corrupt bureaucracy of the British trade unions received its training.

The bureaucracy may have been inefficient, but stories of either high-level or petty corruption were rare.

How can the rights of the individual be protected and therewith a democratic counterweight to the power of bureaucracy be assured?

The different departments, the whole bureaucracy, it was absolutely mind-boggling.

The rule of the bureaucracy remained an insurmountable obstacle, blocking the road toward socialism.

Scots if anything were greatly overrepresented proportionately in the British officer corps and the empire's bloated bureaucracy.

The old bureaucracy, particularly the increasingly restive military caste, is pressing for an increasingly aggressive foreign policy.

Steve and Michael agreed that this had raised Douglas's expectations, causing him to be wildly unrealistic with Bureaucracy.

In every country the bureaucracy is abused, with more or less reason, for Unprogressiveness, timidity and red-tape, and Italy is no exception to the rule.

For the first time in history the idea of centralization was introduced into politics; the Tiglathpileser conquered provinces were organized under an elaborate bureaucracy at the head of which was the king, each district paying a fixed tribute and providing a military contingent.

He was a man of great ability, both military and administrative, and initiated a new system of policy in Assyria which he aimed at making the head of a centralized empire, bound together by a bureaucracy who derived their power from the king.

He was above all concerned to nip in the bud any tendencies in the bureaucracy to revolt, and it was on his initiative that, on the 4th of January 1882, a royal ordinance laid it down as the duty of all officials to give the government their unconditional support at political elections.

A Burgermeister, once elected, becomes a member of the bureaucracy and is responsible to the central administration; even the headman of a village commune is, within the narrow limits of his functions, a government official.

Hegel, like Goethe, felt no patriotic shudder at the national disaster, and in Prussia he saw only a corrupt and conceited bureaucracy.

His next care was to restore the bureaucracy by which Henry I.

Worse still, power is steadily seeping away from the nation states to the central EU bureaucracy.

And to implement these reforms at the same time as slashing the government bureaucracy by half.

In a countryside, increasingly stifled by bureaucracy, how will tomorrow 's rural communities make a living?

This brings us onto the question of the trade union bureaucracy.

The unwieldy bureaucracy of the LIG program remains a burden to all involved, notwithstanding the accepted need for accountability and quality assurance.

To quote Tamer, there's too much bureaucracy.