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Bureaucracy at its best is the art of ensuring work never flows backwards in a system where nobody can see very far, by overengineering the output at every stage. It’s the essence of good fat.
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Q: what is the relationship between bureaucracy and institutions (eg “The Electoral Process”)? How does the survivability of bureaucracies make institutions more survivable? Does it?
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It’s the overlapping boundary lines btw bureaucracies (which are clearly organizational) and institutions (which are cultural/cognitive/behavioral). I’m using the term “institution” in the “institutional theory” sense here.
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