"administrative hierarchy" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is used to refer to the structure or ranking of people within an organization, company, or other institution. For example, "The administrative hierarchy of our school is quite complex, with multiple levels of staff from the principal to the custodial workers."
"There was an awareness among the BBC's administrative hierarchy that something a bit dodgy had happened," wrote Brand.
The top name in the administrative hierarchy is his, above that of Mayor Alemanno, who is chairman of the board.
The king was supported by an inner administrative hierarchy consisting of members of his family and influential nobles.
After de Graaff became colonial minister, he revived an old plan of his to create provinces and restructure the administrative hierarchy.
Farther down the administrative hierarchy are the provinces (Flemish: provincies), each of which is divided into arrondissements and further subdivided into communes (gemeenten).
At a time when a polarised Egypt urgently needs to build political consensus, Morsi has also been criticised for appointing allies to key positions within the Egyptian administrative hierarchy.
The Romans developed a more sophisticated system under their empire, creating distinct administrative hierarchies for justice, military affairs, finance and taxation, foreign affairs, and internal affairs, each with its own principal officers of state.
Any hint of federalism seems out of the question, as does a rejigging of provincial boundaries or administrative hierarchies to give disgruntled minorities more autonomy.Indeed, the junta recently signalled its intransigence by arresting the leader of one ceasefire group, the Shan State National Army SSNAalonglong with various other politicians from Myanmar's biggest ethnic minority, the Shan.
Since the mid-2000s, the Chinese government has advanced an aggressive green building campaign, which is distinguished by its speed, scale, and evolution from one of voluntary participation to a top-down implementation through administrative hierarchies.
Data accuracy is checked continually through amalgamation via the various administrative hierarchies, over what is a very large land area.
Instead, it is a matter of whether it is best to attribute a certain task to a multi-purpose agency embedded in pre-existing, multiple-tiered politico-administrative hierarchies as opposed to constituting ad-hoc single-task, special agencies outside them.
