Government public affairs and public diplomacy efforts are slowly beginning to reorient staffing, schedules, and bureaucratic culture to engage the full range of today s media.

Turkey s Failed Bureaucratic Coup

Detailed, concrete, no bureaucratic speech.

All empires, by definition, are bumbling, shambolic, bullying, bureaucratic affairs, as certain of the rightness of their cause in infancy, as they are corrupted by power in their dotage.

So this was the pre bureaucratic age.

There was also bureaucratic resistance from existing regulators.

Nor should it be restricted to hierarchical bureaucratic organizations.

November 9, 1989, was one of those rare moments when irony reigned, because East Germany s bureaucratic socialism died as it had lived with a bureaucratic snafu.

Well, I'm afraid you're going to suffer a short, condensed history lesson about what I would say are the three passages of history the pre bureaucratic age, the bureaucratic age and what we now live in, which I think is a post bureaucratic age.

Reforms to patronage systems most often produce bureaucratic merit systems.

It is no longer a traumatic experience, just a bureaucratic hassle.

In any case, the political consequences overshadow legal or bureaucratic issues.

I welcome Medvedev s emphasis on social concerns and his anti bureaucratic rhetoric.

Leadership degeneration accelerates as the autocratic regime ages and grows more bureaucratic.

Citizens associate the EU with, above all, bureaucratic grayness and technocratic rationality.

This change was associated with the shift from aristocratic to bureaucratic government.

Larger bureaucratic organizations can benefit from the flexibility of teams as well.

It relies on competition, rather than bureaucratic heavy handedness, to achieve its goals.

Bureaucratic and judicial reform ought to have priority in most countries in Latin America.

Obtaining approvals is a lengthy process that involves substantial documentation and tedious bureaucratic procedures.

This was the pre bureaucratic age, an age in which everything had to be local.

So we're now living in a post bureaucratic age, where genuine people power is possible.

As bureaucratic decision making became more risk averse, many large projects ground to a halt.

The same is true in systems where there is a strong sense of bureaucratic entitlement.

Cheney was better known as a ruthless bureaucratic operator than a man of bold ideas.

Existing bureaucratic obstacles have an enormous cost for business, as well as for state revenues.

Their instinct (and their bureaucratic interest) is to defend their countries national champion bank(s) abroad.

Others, however, see a Chinese strategy that is confused, contradictory, and paralyzed by competing bureaucratic interests.

Other bureaucratic decision makers, for their part, are increasingly constrained by requirements of transparency and disclosure.

Bureaucratic entrepreneurs, on the other hand, take advantage of such opportunities to adjust and promote policies.

While markets are imperfect, regulators are not only human but bureaucratic and subject to political influence.

To be sure, behind the Union s great schemes lurks another EU, one that is excessively bureaucratic.

These structures are often rigid, quite bureaucratic, dominating by men, and as such, intimidating for women.

These people emerged under conditions created in deeply inequitable societies by a misapplied, inconsistent, and bureaucratic war.

Unlike 30 years ago, no strong force for political reform now exists in China s vast bureaucratic system.

And, of course, the persistent complaints of corruption and bureaucratic red tape have not faded with liberalization.

To put it simply, a sound management system cannot operate with rigid bureaucratic structures and institutional inflexibilities.

There is absolutely nothing about Golden Rice that should require endless case by case reviews and bureaucratic dithering.

Such bureaucratic inertia does not sit well with the many Libyans who are still undecided about the revolution.

On the other hand, the EU is paying a steep price for the bureaucratic anonymity of its leaders.

The country can no longer provide enough government stipends in the form of bureaucratic posts for college graduates.

Minister for Foreign Affairs Minister for Foreign Affairs

Minister for Foreign Affairs Minister for Foreign Affairs

Without this conviction the letter of the law is nothing but a mask for bureaucratic caprice and authoritarian will.

Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs Acting Minister for Foreign Affairs