state bureaucracy
collocation in Englishmeaningsofstateandbureaucracy
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state
adjective[before noun]
uk/steɪt/us/steɪt/
provided, created, or done by the state (= government of ...
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bureaucracy
noun[U or C]
uk/bjʊəˈrɒk.rə.si/us/bjʊˈrɑː.krə.si/
a system for controlling or managing a country, company, or organization that is operated by a large number of officials employed to follow ...
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(Definition ofstateandbureaucracyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Of twenty-four administrative elite interviewees, the apparatchiki accounted for fourteen, and two others were inherited from the pre-1991statebureaucracy.
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These men - assistant commissioners, undersecretaries, inspectors - were the by-product of the fledgling but growingstatebureaucracy.
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In both countries, there has been an increasing concentration and financialisation of capital and a weakening of thestatebureaucracy.
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The limitations local government imposed upon thestatebureaucracyequally found general support.
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There was a drastic reduction of thestatebureaucracyby the elimination of 15 ministries.
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Thestatebureaucracyhas responded to these problems by setting several new goals.
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The discipline that the militiamen have displayed so far may also be due to the fact that they are not part of thestatebureaucracy.
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First, non-compliance may reflect more general problems of administrative practice and weak powers of supervision within thestatebureaucracy.
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The forest service came to represent the arm ofstatebureaucracywith most direct negative influence within remote rural villages.
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The new sanitary initiatives, when they finally came, did not originate from thestatebureaucracybut from among the liberal urban middle class.
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In these cases, economic growth has been the result of the guidance and intervention of thestatebureaucracyrather than the unfettered market-place.
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Second, activities at the society clash with the administrative logic of thestatebureaucracy, which limits civil society activities to a particular set of non-political functions.
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The implementation of this law increased the quality of thestatebureaucracyand the legitimacy of state intervention, and made public employment socially attractive for a new professional class.
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The epistemic communities' framework argues that networks of like-minded professionals at middle-levels of thestatebureaucracyhave great opportunities to influence policy-making in highly technical issue areas.
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The radicals had already taken over most of thestatebureaucracyby this time and established control over the radio and television media and much of the press.
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In this variant of monarchical authoritarianism, the ruling family generally participates only in the political institutions of the monarchy-not in thestatebureaucracy(the military excepted).
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The large size of thestatebureaucracyhas turned much of the working population into de facto state clients whose livelihoods depend on the public purse.
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Statebureaucracy(as a segment of the public sector) continues to remain weighty; however, its employees, unlike workers in industry or services, largely have been unorganized.
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Opportunities for social mobility increased significantly due to the economic boom of the 1940s, the establishment of home industries and the expansion of thestatebureaucracy.
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