Synonym: bureaucratism. Similar words: bureau, democracy, meritocracy, lucrative, accuracy, crack, conspiracy, creature. Meaning: [bjʊə'rɒkrəsɪ] n. 1. nonelective government officials 2. a government that is administered primarily by bureaus that are staffed with nonelective officials 3. any organization in which action is obstructed by insistence on unnecessary procedures and red tape.
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151) What characterises bureaucracy is the rational and systematic way in which official duties are defined and distributed.
152) In fact, internal conflicts may exist within the bureaucracy as different sectors within it compete for scarce resources.
153) In a truly democratic state the bureaucracy would be transcended.
154) The organization is made up of 346, 000 lawyers, you see(sentencedict.com/bureaucracy.html), and there is bureaucracy on top of bureaucracy.
155) At first glance it looks as though the structure might belong to the Social Security Administration or some other elephantine bureaucracy.
156) The task of bureaucracy was precisely to maintain a system of social relations which consolidate class domination.
157) But the way Rembrandt's nose is worked should equally provide a corrective to rhetoric or elision in the writing on bureaucracy.
158) The civil bureaucracy as a whole was never committed to liberal democracy.
159) Secrecy is a weapon in the political armoury of bureaucracy.
160) Stella the personnel administrator will not simply push paper around in Personnel but will take action to cut down on the bureaucracy.
161) Perhaps the most significant aspect of the technical and rational mastery of the modern world has been bureaucracy.
162) Mr Birt himself has stressed his desire to transfer support services out from the central bureaucracy in London.
163) The case dragged through the federal bureaucracy for seven years, before she finally gave up her citizenship voluntarily in 1971.
164) This is difficult if policy makers can use only one method-services produced by their own bureaucracy.
165) The business of claiming from a company is becoming wrapped up in more and more paperwork and bureaucracy.
166) In July a Pravda editorial had attacked perestroika for creating a new bureaucracy without solving the old problems.
167) It locates bureaucracy in a class context rather than in a constitutional or even institutional context.
168) According to the Marxist view of bureaucracy, this is indeed the case in capitalist systems.
169) The use of state posts as a source of patronage and control was reflected in the hypertrophy of the state enterprise bureaucracy.
170) The contradictions are reflected in the political arguments - and political rows - between socialist feminists and the fledgling labour movement bureaucracy.
171) Weld said he thought some federal student loan and job training programs were mired in bureaucracy.
172) Together, they come up against an extraordinarily barbaric state bureaucracy and not a few disappointments.
173) The new bureaucracy of alphabet soup agencies was in harness.
174) Unfortunately, Tucson Water is an agency with an entrenched and willful bureaucracy.
175) In fact, without evolutionary and learning pressures, the society of mind in a brain would turn into a bureaucracy.
176) But it decided against setting up another global bureaucracy to monitor countries' plans.
177) The relationship between the bureaucracy and other institutions is not a consequence of the exercise of political power by the dominant class.
178) Such creativity simply does not exist in Washington, and if it did, it could not surmount the federal bureaucracy.
179) Nor should the bureaucratization of society as a whole be confused with the emergence of the bureaucracy as a ruling class.
180) Bureaucracy is a particular structure and style through which the administration can operate.