In the past, economic policy was run by bureaucrats under the gaze of the Politburo.
Using computers to track fraud, Di Pietro has had 600 Milanese politicians & bureaucrats under investigation for corruption, & 250 convictions.
This summer, after staging a 12-day hunger strike that drew huge crowds, Mr. Hazare forced the government to agree to place bureaucrats under an anticorruption agency, to create a citizen's charter to expedite public corruption grievances and to establish state-level anticorruption agencies.
It is an account of legislators who passed a law riddled with ambiguities; of crucial errors by midlevel bureaucrats under President Bill Clinton; of $2 billion in inducements from the Bush administration, which was intent on promoting energy production; and of Republican lawmakers who wanted to do even more.
When power is in the hands of an authoritarian government that keeps bureaucrats under firm control, the state is able to act like a smart monopolist: its employees charge prices that are high but not too high, and are able to deliver what they promise.
The appeal was heard by a bureaucrat because under the colonial-era laws in place in Pakistan's tribal agencies the decisions of political agents, the officials charged with administering justice in the agencies, cannot be heard in a court of law.
Until recently, I have found few things as satisfying as the televised spectacle of some corrupt public figure, titan of industry, or scandalized bureaucrat withering under the relentless attack of my representatives on the Hill.
Americans should count their blessings, above all the supreme blessing of having an economy that is run by businessmen, not bureaucrats, or that–under wise governance runs itself.
Some bureaucrats felt under siege by the relentless lobbying.
DeMarco's a career bureaucrat who joined FHFA under George W. Bush and was named Acting Director by Obama in 2009.
