What doesn t happen in the world of bureaucracy?

Was it bad luck, miscalculation, or bureaucratic error?

The earthquake, together with the media transparency that accompanied it, has made the bureaucrats more accountable.

He does not look like an archetypal post Soviet bureaucrat or KGB agent.

Treasury bureaucrats have remained predictably anti European ever since.

Sadly, most bureaucrats still look upon human rights values with disdain.

They then bitterly complained to their people about Brussels bureaucrats and their undemocratic ways.

In response to the Assembly's special session, the pro government leader and legislator Diosdado Cabello wrote

Surprisingly, Kan, who entered politics to dismantle the old system, now has switched to the mandarins side. The DPJ suffered a bitter defeat in this summer s upper house election, after Kan abruptly proposed a significant increase in the highly unpopular consumption tax.

Ever since the referendum failures of both the European constitution and the Lisbon treaty, the EU has been flying on autopilot, run by its bureaucrats.

Today, the NTC is hard pressed to find competent, politically untainted bureaucrats to fill its ministries.

Surprisingly, Kan, who entered politics to dismantle the old system, now has switched to the mandarins side.

Under a North Korean collective leadership dominated by the military, the power of the country s economic bureaucrats will be marginal, at best.

Subsidies generate safe startups that appeal to bureaucrats rather than to market demand.

And so thousands of Ukrainians are paying with their lives to allow a small group of bureaucrats to continue where ousted president Victor Yanukovych left off.

The cultural orientation of bureaucrats and teachers is deeply anti market, anti risk taking and in love with the status quo.

They also can continue to play the blame game, letting the Union pursue reforms, while complaining about Brussels bureaucrats.

If the Commission fails to act, the EU will look even more like a playground for French public servants.

A sharp and ill considered reduction of the civil service began. Here was reform by the numbers shrink the state, it was assumed, and government would run more smoothly.

Avoiding embarrassment may at times be in the national interest, but it can also protect the careers of politicians and bureaucrats.

However, since these petty bureaucrats power is almost absolute, they also control the channels for addressing grievances.

Capital markets can get the allocation of investment badly wrong, but governments are likely to get it wrong even worse, and the incentives to corrupt bureaucrats do need to be kept as low as possible.

At first, reform of the state incited hostility among both bureaucrats and ordinary citizens.

With more money, ill educated bureaucrats hire more ill educated bureaucrats as a result, the regime fails to rule the country.

This multitude can appear to be an integrated instrument of the authoritarian state but, if we look closely, it reveals itself as a vector resulting from the actions of various security agents, bureaucrats and bandits.

In today s China, the overwhelming majority of bureaucrats like the status quo and have enough resources to protect themselves.

One of the DPJ government s stated goals was to increase the political system s transparency less hidden authority for bureaucrats, more responsibility for elected politicians.

Corrupt bosses put to shame petty government bureaucrats who steal a measly few thousand dollars even a few million.

In the meantime, even if the referendum is held and eventually lost under the combined onslaught of bureaucrats, politicians and union bosses, the modernization revolution is alive.

Moreover, labor market policies do not fall under the EU mandate, so national governments will be on their own, without the Brussels bureaucrats to blame.

This confirms a rule that Shleifer and his colleagues intuit the only way to control bureaucrats is to get rid of as many as you can, permanently.

Privatizing Pemex and the national electric company will also allow trained, professional managers to replace state bureaucrats and bring an end to trade unions current major role in the management process.

Until now, its success was based on positive competition between local governments and different ministries, benchmarked according to performance indicators such as GDP and fiscal revenues. Unfortunately, this has led to problems of social equity and environmental sustainability, which require complex coordination of bureaucratic silos in order to overcome the resistance of powerful vested interests.

But it is much easier for them to adopt a low profile, get the Brussels bureaucrats to do it, and then blame those Brussels officials, indeed the EU, for any and all of the pain.

Tight knit cliques of bureaucrats and corporate officials made sure that a utility company vital for economic growth would never be hindered by strict regulation or political oversight.

They take their direction from corporate bureaucrats in waging war against the indigenous people, whose sacred land is sited on vast reserves of unobtainium, which the corporation wishes to secure at all costs.

Technology and the new economy are immensely popular across Europe because they provide a much better route to prosperity than waiting for government, unions, and bureaucrats to agree on restructuring the old economy.

Corruption is difficult to reduce drastically so long as politicians and bureaucrats have much to sell to firms and individuals including rationed loans from public sector banks and regulatory permits of various types. In rural areas, corruption emanates from frequent expropriation of land lease contracts held by farmers working on collectively owned land, which local officials then turn over to non agriculture land developers.

Corruption is difficult to reduce drastically so long as politicians and bureaucrats have much to sell to firms and individuals including rationed loans from public sector banks and regulatory permits of various types.

In October 2001, a half dozen bureaucrats were expelled from one of China's major cities for not meeting their economic growth and security targets.

Moreover, a leading economic group was established to enforce bureaucratic compliance, as was a national security council (similar to that in the United States) to coordinate foreign policy.

A group of journalists from the Ukrainian investigative website texty.org.ua decided to draw the attention of Ukrainian officials to the potential dangers of using Russian email services and to play a prank on the bureaucrats to raise awareness of the issue.

The main lesson seems to be that natural abundance may support democracy and development only when they are not in the hands of bureaucrats or caudillos.

He maintained Russia's Central Bank as a bureaucratic and murky monster of 80,000 bureaucrats (America's Fed, by contrast, has only 10,000 employees).

In India, where government is more often considered a drag on commerce than a catalyst of growth, the decisions that move local markets are now more likely to come from bureaucrats in Delhi than from innovators in Mumbai.