All Posts Tagged With: "bureaucrats"
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
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
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 | Deborah Alicen | 0 comments | Continued
Malaysia–Thailand Editorial
Having recently published posts about both Thailand and Malaysia, this editorial is pertinent to the bureaucratic change movements in both countries. In this instance, there’s the need for bureaucrats in both countries to “to learn and work together in order to understand the hearts and minds of people in their respective countries.” May it be [...]
29Apr2008 | Deborah Alicen | 0 comments | Continued
Across the Pond, It’s “Clipboard Man” in “Bureaucracy Gone Bonkers”
Oh, were the UK the only place the likes of Clipboard Man runs unfettered! Carmichael cites some amazingly dotty adventures of Clipboard Man from years past, and reports that Clipboard Man has recently re-surfaced, “more intrusive and creepier than ever.”
27Apr2008 | Deborah Alicen | 0 comments | Continued
