Bureaucrat

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Bureaucrat

(1) A member of a bureaucracy.

(2) An official who performs his duties in a formal manner, to the detriment of getting things done; a formalist, a redtapist.

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The reason for the high bribe price per entrepreneur in the uncoordinated case is that each bureaucrat fails to take into consideration how his bribe affects other bureaucrats' bribe choices.

Corruption: top down or bottom up?

Talk of NAB's special treatment towards the bureaucrats will only add to its reputation as a tool against the most maligned souls in this land of the pure: the politicians.

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Anjali Bansal, Managing Director, Spencer Stuart, says there has always been a need for bureaucrats in the private sector.

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"That's right,'' said the bureaucrat. "We issued a slew of new regulations to curb U.S.

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The Weberian bureaucrat was expected to conform to norms of rationality, specialisation, political neutrality, meritocratic recruitment and long term career ladders among other characteristics [Weber (1968)].

Pakistani bureaucracy and political neutrality: a mutually exclusive phenomenon?

What gave American government bureaucrats the idea they could dispense dangerous drugs without telling someone isn't hard to fathom.

What government can do to you: our government has steadily, and increasingly openly, treated Americans as dispensable assets--to be used or discarded at will

If you doubt that, consider a scene later in the movie, when our antihero, applying for another job, is unable to speak to the bureaucrat behind the desk because the latter keeps disappearing and being replaced by someone new.

The eccentric revolutionaries: banned for decades in the Soviet Union, a subversive comedy finally comes to DVD

A regression analysis looking at seniority as a factor of second-generation status and former bureaucrat status underscores what has already been written.

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Self-interest in public administration: Niskanen and the budget-maximizing bureaucrat

From the get-go, the industry has been dominated by politicians, wealthy lawyers, accountants and cultural bureaucrats, a particularly hideous term that has special meaning in the minefield of arts funding in Canada; and Spencer is an accomplished cultural bureaucrat.

Hollywood North: Creating the Canadian Motion Picture Industry

I would never encourage newsletter marketers to do anything illegal, but I would encourage them to "be prepared" for a visit someday from a bureaucrat of some stripe who is convinced that something you regard as a perfectly ordinary marketing ploy is somehow "fraudulent."

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When I was a GP a bureaucrat called to say he wanted to take away my patients' medical records for some unexplained official reason.

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