Will her office have the same bureaucratic clout — the ability to knock heads together at other agencies — as the National Security Council and the National Economic Council?
That bureaucratic shortsightedness undermines our ability to even see the dots, let alone connect them.
The degree of political autonomy available to them and the domestic organization of bureaucratic responsibility determine their ability to succeed.
Affirmative-action policies can have a similar effect, sometimes causing racial and ethnic minorities to question whether their successes reflect genuine ability or bureaucratic tokenism.
Medvedev's personal relationship with Putin, lack of a party foundation, and a small pro-Medvedev bureaucratic cadre limit his ability to be reelected without Putin's consent.
They include feminists, human rights workers and, most important, the young Arab dissidents who call her "the bureaucratic bulldozer" for her ability to barrel through official obstacles.
Palestinians in the West Bank remain subject to a complex system of control and bureaucratic barriers and the ability to build homes and infrastructure in Area C of the West Bank and East Jerusalem is limited.
Gorbachev did not crack down on Memorial, but the group wasn't allowed to register, a bureaucratic maneuver that hampered its ability to collect funds and operate smoothly.
Nicknames include Emperor Alexander, for his ability to expand bureaucratic fiefdoms, and Alexander the Geek, for his longstanding interest in electronics and computers.
But advocates for the homeless questioned the city's ability to avoid bureaucratic mistakes that could result in a family being wrongly ejected.
