All Posts Tagged With: "bureaucracy"
Getting the approval of 15 different agencies
The Gulf Port, MS, Sun Herald reports today on both the problems and progress of the Missisippi Development Authority (MDA) in its post-Katrina rebuilding efforts. Officials from the Mississippi Development Authority paint a picture of vital Hurricane Katrina-relief projects still snared in federal bureaucracy almost three years after the storm. But members of the MDA [...]
12Jul2008 | Deborah Alicen | 0 comments | Continued
Bureaucracy and higher education
I find it astonishing, but also fairly common, that institutions of higher education often do not take time to find out, and make use of, some of the cutting edge work being done by their own students and faculty that could so well serve the kinds of administrative changes that would enhance the educational mission.
11Jul2008 | Deborah Alicen | 0 comments | Continued
Speaking of Kafka
As I regularly refer to Franz Kafka, this item on some of his unpublished papers got my attention this morning. Part of Kafka’s genius was in seeing, and making the picture accessible to others, the crazy-making, and sometimes downright evil (e.g. Nazi), abuses to which bureaucracies so often are given. In doing so he has [...]
10Jul2008 | Deborah Alicen | 0 comments | Continued
Rudd and bureaucrats again…
Kevin Rudd‘s administration in Australia is going to continue to be of interest here because of his background as a bureaucrat, and his apparent dedication to bureaucracies that well serve the public. The operative word there is “apparent.” Time will tell the story, of course, but there’s a news item today–or technically, tomorrow, given that [...]
28May2008 | Deborah Alicen | 0 comments | Continued
Vermont Child Protection Update
The Human Services and Judiciary Committees each developed bills that shifts the mode of operation more toward providing service to children and families in trouble, and away from the more corrections-oriented approach that has prevailed under the old laws.
31Mar2008 | Deborah Alicen | 0 comments | Continued
Anti-Corruption and Open Society Forum Work in Mongolia
The Montsame News Agency in Mongolia carries this item today: Montsame Agency By an order of the Anti-Corruption Authority, the “Glob International” non-governmental organization has conducted a survey encompassing 121 state institutions, 185 officials and 189 state servants who are duty bound to offer state services, and 749 citizens. The results of the survey, funded [...]
26Mar2008 | Deborah Alicen | 0 comments | Continued
