Collocations withbureaucracy
These are words often used in combination withbureaucracy.
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bloated bureaucracy
Paradoxically, democracy fosters division, the climate of 'rights' proposed by organized groups and corruption at even the most modest levels of the bloated bureaucracy.
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central bureaucracy
The central bureaucracy was poorly equipped to deal with the stream of complaints and requests for adjudication and clarification pouring in from the provinces.
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cumbersome bureaucracy
I agree that we do not want to have cumbersome bureaucracy standing in the way of delivery.
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enormous bureaucracy
We could be creating an enormous bureaucracy and a talking shop, which is my problem with the amendments.
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federal bureaucracy
These intellectual ancestors came to dominate the professions, finance, education, the foundations, and later the federal bureaucracy and judiciary.
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huge bureaucracy
Moreover, each was located at the pinnacle of a huge bureaucracy that greatly reduced personal information costs.
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large bureaucracy
The various public service pathologies described here will bring a wry smile to the face of anyone who has worked with a large bureaucracy.
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massive bureaucracy
There is also to be an end to selection, the use of unelected adjudicators, massive bureaucracy and greater central control.
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state bureaucracy
Of twenty-four administrative elite interviewees, the apparatchiki accounted for fourteen, and two others were inherited from the pre-1991 state bureaucracy.
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vast bureaucracy
So there would be very grave danger of building up a vast bureaucracy.
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