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political institutions by making them a bit less democratic."
Size no longer means strength. Bureaucracy no longer means control. And
titles no longer mean authority. And if the future ... struggles to push his
agenda through America's unwieldy -- and increasingly massive -- national
security bureaucracy. "To govern is to choose," the old saying goes, but to
govern is also ... term offers perhaps the best recent case study of a president
trapped by a bureaucracy. By 2007, the United States was clearly losing the
war in Iraq, but the president
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that would constrain rulers. But the Ottoman Empire
integrated the ulema into the state bureaucracy. The sultan,
then, was also the most powerful representative of religious
power.
Despite many attempts ... reform during the late nineteenth and
twentieth centuries, Turkish rulers' hold on the bureaucracy
and the judiciary never truly relaxed. The reason was simple:
the reforms weren't intended ... radical departure from the
Ottoman Empire. The new rulers abolished the monarchy,
modernized state bureaucracy, regulated religion, which they
saw as an obstacle to their plans, and intended to industrialize
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USSC's every move was under a
microscope -- from the Israelis, Palestinians, U.S.
government bureaucracies, Congress, international
actors, and political advocacy groups alike. Success
was far from a given ... general and his team spent countless hours in
consultations and negotiations, maneuvering through
byzantine bureaucracies -- the U.S. bureaucracy
included -- and against long-standing local biases.
Major issues were resolved
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2012-11-0914p7,633w
Remember, America is a vast country that requires a
massive security and diplomatic bureaucracy. Turni=g that bureaucracy in the direction you want it to go, and making ... than others. Baker was = high-powered lawyer,
Gates spent a life in the intelligence bureaucracy a=d Shultz ran a large engineering firm. While Kissinger and Brzezinski
were academics, they
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area for centuries collapsed. These moves — to disband the army, dismantle the
bureaucracy and purge Sunnis in general — might have been more consequential than the invasion
itself, because when ... Today,
he concludes, "the rule of law has slowly been replaced by giant idiosyncratic bureaucracies that are
designed to criminalizefailure, poverty, and weakness on the one hand, and to immunize ... corresponding groveling
terror before the rich and successful, and we're building a bureaucracy to match those
feelings."
Matt Taibbi, "The Divide"
INSPIRATIONAL VIDEO OF THE WEEK
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EFTA02721203Set 11
2012-05-1848p11,284w
USSC's every move was under a
microscope -- from the Israelis, Palestinians, U.S.
government bureaucracies, Congress, international
actors, and political advocacy groups alike. Success
was far from a given ... general and his team spent countless hours in
consultations and negotiations, maneuvering through
byzantine bureaucracies -- the U.S. bureaucracy
included -- and against long-standing local biases.
Major issues were resolved
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moves
toward democracy. It will likely involve administrative changes that make
China's bureaucracy more efficient, effective and honest. Local courts, for
example, long dominated by corrupt local politicians ... down
political system, a unified leadership is seen as fully capable of forcing the
bureaucracy to comply with its wishes. With Xi's anti-corruption campaign
in full swing ... opposition from powerful entrenched interest groups — state-owned
enterprises, local governments, the economic-policy bureaucracy, and
family members of political elites and well-connected businessmen — and
flawed political institutions. Unless
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2014-04-2040p9,679w
continues to be responsible for the wages of the many
employees of its own bureaucracies and the workers in
enterprises that public authorities still own and operate. These
wages tend ... Russian government,
which diverts money from more productive purposes. Oil
revenues support a bloated bureaucracy and a variety of often
unproductive government programs. Perhaps most damagingly,
because the energy sector ... interest groups, account for 2.4
percent of the country's GDP. The Indian bureaucracy is itself a
large, powerful, and voracious interest group. Its salaries
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consume
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EFTA00718128Set 9
2014-04-2127p9,632w
continues to
be responsible for the wages of the many employees of its own
bureaucracies and the workers in enterprises that public authorities still
own and operate. These wages tend ... Russian government, which diverts money from more productive purposes.
Oil revenues support a bloated bureaucracy and a variety of often
unproductive government programs. Perhaps most damagingly, because the
energy sector ... interest groups, account for 2.4 percent of the country's
GDP. The Indian bureaucracy is itself a large, powerful, and voracious
interest group. Its salaries consume resources that would
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2011-06-2533p9,522w
together," Gates recalls. "If we got along, the message would
go to the entire bureaucracy--not just our own bureaucracies but the
rest of government as well. She totally understood ... their rule through offspring: sons who had not risen
through the military or other bureaucracies, and thus had no
legitimacy. Marcus Aurelius was one thing; Tunisia's Zine el-
Abidine
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activities.
Over time, this form of governance has changed. Presidents
sometimes assume that the bureaucracy will try to capture a secretary
and his or her immediate staff so that they ... independence, grievances could not be fairly heard. Add to that a
venal and idle bureaucracy, and the supposed economic reforms
became a justification for the appropriation of economic power
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2012-06-1268p18,185w
that they believed was hostile to the
President and his agenda. "Faced with a bureaucracy we did not
control, was not staffed with our people, and with which ... EFTA_R1_02204165
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not know how to communicate, we created our own
bureaucracy," White House aides wrote in a 1972 memo found
in the files of H. R. Haldeman
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2012-09-0430p10,660w
African countries to regain their competitive advantage.
High transportation and input costs, duties, and bureaucracy are some of
the obstacles that have hindered African manufacturing in the past. The
continent ... access to finance in those sectors,
build the necessary infrastructure, cut unnecessary regulation and
bureaucracy and create a more business-friendly environment, and
develop the skills needed to support
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success stories like Singapore, particularly the city-state's merit-
based approach to bureaucracy. Whether its growth is state-
driven or laissez-faire, a well-organized bureaucratic system
should recognize ... success stories like Singapore, particularly the city-state's merit-
based approach to bureaucracy. Whether its growth is state-
driven or laissez-faire, a well-organized bureaucratic system
should recognize
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