All Posts Tagged With: "bureaucratic reform"

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Not a windmill after all?

Dad was certainly a visionary, and I have inherited that particular gene, or curse, or blessing, depending on your perspective. At times it’s all three. It’s a wonderful thing because visionaries can see a beauty that isn’t yet, and be driven by that beauty, and try to make it real. It’s a horrible thing because there can be few or no others who can see anything similar, and when others pay any attention at all, it’s likely to scoff or worse.

15Mar2011 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Australia’s New PM Puts Major Focus on Bureaucratic Reform

I would suggest, however, that while we prefer our bureaucracies not be ideologically driven in the way the Bush administration departments have been politicized, advancing the idea of policies and processes that are responsive to their constituencies, as Rudd seems to have done, is expressive of an ideal, and in that way is putting forth a non-partisan ideology. Lacking a clear partisan ideology doesn’t mean that he’s “lacking ideology” altogether.

4May2008 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Bureaucratic Reform in Malaysia

I do enjoy finding reports of bureaucratic reform going on in other parts of the world. Today it’s a story in the Sabah, Malaysia, Daily Express, and it’s rich with references to grassroots leadership, cultural change, and citizen involvement.

5Apr2008 | | 0 comments | Continued
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