Turkey s Failed Bureaucratic Coup

It's called the bureaucratic administrative machine.

So this was the pre bureaucratic age.

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.

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

We didn't only have the bureaucratic problems associated with that, was also had professional jealousies.

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.

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

The schools would produce the people who would then become parts of the bureaucratic administrative machine.

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

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

Eliminating bureaucratic red tape, as the Commission has now pledged to do, would be a substantial boon to European researchers.

The World Bank suggests that the bureaucratic requirements to start a business in many countries are excessive and time consuming.

The fighting now affects humanitarian work more frequently and more directly than bureaucratic restrictions ever did, with fatal, tragic consequences.

Other obstacles to international cooperation, such as bureaucratic constraints and the notion of keeping information secret in investigations, were also discussed.

By easing bureaucratic procedures, entrepreneurs are able to concentrate their efforts on higher value activities such as product development and sales.

In bureaucratic school systems, teachers are often left alone in classrooms with a lot of prescription on what they should be teaching.

Suddenly, all sorts of transport, travel information were possible, and this gave birth to, what I like to call, the bureaucratic age.

But why did the pieces of the puzzle fall into place as they did? Was it bad luck, miscalculation, or bureaucratic error?

Then, after years of bureaucratic hurdles, it is the National Institute on Drug Abuse that has held the final key to the lock.

This dictates a radical change in mindset a change from bureaucratic turf protection to teamwork, and from narrow departmentalization to interdepartmental (joint) programming.

The judicial procedure for resolving commercial disputes tends to be overly bureaucratic in a number of developing countries in comparison with industrialized countries.

Particular attention was called to bureaucratic difficulties to establish a business property rights and effective enforcement of contracts and protection of creditor rights.

The substantive value added of having UNOPS as an executing agency under the RCF RP is unclear and largely preserved for bureaucratic reasons.

National supervisors always tend to minimize problems at home. Their instinct (and their bureaucratic interest) is to defend their countries national champion bank(s) abroad.

There was also bureaucratic resistance from existing regulators. Most important, supervision suggested some potential responsibility to recapitalize problematic banks, and thus involved a fiscal cost.

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.

Avoiding that Agenda 21 might become a new bureaucratic mechanism but making all efforts for it to become a catalytic factor for developing civil society.

Bureaucratic problems Ultimately when you have a new treatment you have to have a guidance note going out for all of the hospitals in the country.

Today's successful economies were able to develop such institutions consistent with national political and social cultures and with the bureaucratic and entrepreneurial capacities of local elites.

For 30 years, I've been covering school reform and we've basically reorganized the bureaucratic boxes charters, private schools, vouchers but we've had disappointing results year after year.

Many indigenous communities and non governmental organizations are ready partners when such endeavours demonstrate good will, and freedom from political corruption, military domination and controlled bureaucratic procedures

Duplication of studies and a piecemeal approach will not lead to strengthening the oversight mechanisms, rather they will overload the Organization with more layers of bureaucratic structures.

The easing of bureaucratic restrictions since the implementation of the joint communiqué has resulted in a significant increase in the humanitarian presence and delivery of assistance in Darfur.

Urging central legislative authorities to rethink the bureaucratic process and promote institutional strengthening among governmental agencies to shorten times of authorization procedures on behalf of new economic activities.

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.

Other bureaucratic decision makers, for their part, are increasingly constrained by requirements of transparency and disclosure. Internet based movements are forcing Chinese policymakers to strengthen labor and environmental standards.

The charismatic figures of the mid twentieth century Churchill, Adenauer, and de Gaulle have no contemporary counterparts. Citizens associate the EU with, above all, bureaucratic grayness and technocratic rationality.

In addition, Governments can support employment and enterprise development by removing obstacles to business activity, such as cumbersome bureaucratic procedures, inappropriate intellectual property protection regimes and complex accounting standards.

While some organizations had adopted harmonized procedures and common tools, they tended to retain their own administrative requirements, creating additional bureaucratic burdens for Governments and the United Nations system.

Manual procedures were criticized as being overly bureaucratic, with low levels of delegated authority, many levels of review and requirements for several signatures, even after review by contracts committees.

And, of course, the persistent complaints of corruption and bureaucratic red tape have not faded with liberalization. The country s infrastructure remains woeful, as any visitor flying into an Indian airport notices.

But, having gone too far in deregulating markets, we must resist a natural tendency to overcompensate. While markets are imperfect, regulators are not only human but bureaucratic and subject to political influence.