The phrase "a functioning bureaucracy" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an administrative system that operates effectively and efficiently.
Example: "In order to implement the new policies, we need to ensure that we have a functioning bureaucracy in place to manage the changes."
Alternatives: "an effective administration" or "a working bureaucratic system".
And he is operating without much of a functioning bureaucracy, which was eviscerated by Mr. Suharto during his 32-year rule.
The plan is no longer for a modern state with clean courts, a functioning bureaucracy and a commitment to human rights that would lead to the locking up of the warlords, as many observers still seem to hope.
Finally, the need to set up a functioning bureaucracy, so important for the creation of public trust and the restoration of political normalcy, can clash with the desire for accountability inherent in the first two goals.
The LTTE's goal has been to formally secede from the Sri Lankan state by creating a homeland called "Tamil Eelam," a de facto independent entity that, until very recently, maintained the characteristics of a functioning bureaucracy.
Sixteen years into his rule, Putin does not have "a regular regime, with a normally functioning bureaucracy and institutions — everything has an improvisational character," Pavlovsky said.
She said on Monday that the advertisement of the plans was a purely "technical" issue, opening them up for objections from the public, and that the timing was a function of bureaucracy.
Authentic states with functioning bureaucracies come into existence.
All of these circumstances a social function, a bureaucracy charged with doing astronomy, and a secure system for data storage were missing in the early Greek world.
A new report from the International Crisis Group focuses on the Bosniak-Croat federation, describing it thus:a dense bureaucracy, whose various parts function in competition or open conflict with one another, and a suffocating thicket of confusing and often contradictory legislation and regulation.
Believers of this ideology include both left and right, Marxist thinkers as well as right wing radical Hindu nationalist groups, and a major part of functioning Indian bureaucracy, including a huge segment of its 700 million rural population.
Democrats and Republicans squabble over whether airport security should be a function of government ("creating a new bureaucracy") or private industry.
