But so far as youth provision is concerned they should probably be spending more in grants to youth clubs run by volunteers and charitable trusts, and saving money on their own lacklustre, bureaucratic provision: council-employed youth workers, council-run youth centres and so on.
No longer is there a binary choice between bureaucratic in-house provision and red-blooded privatisation.
"We will break up the bureaucratic monopoly on school provision, which denies parents choice and introduce competition specifically to help drive up standards".
No official estimates were offered on Wednesday as to when those supplies might run out, but there were concerns among some that, given the French state's penchant for bureaucratic paperwork, its current provision of forms might last some time.
In the meantime, any district court judge who rules against the law would have to decide whether to block enforcement of one or more of its provisions, potentially creating bureaucratic chaos.
The thrust of their work concerns overcoming bureaucratic hurdles that impede the smooth provision of government services – which is certainly less spectacular than the original promise of a body that would combat social exclusion head-on.
The continuity they described in their accounts does not seem to map well to an abstract, bureaucratic notion of consistency of information provision.
However bureaucratic failings mean that despite there being provision in EU regulations for this to happen safely and legally, in practice it can be virtually impossible.
Savas (2002) points out that provision and production by the same body generates a bureaucratic cost, that is, the cost of maintaining and managing a bureaucratic system; provision and production by different bodies generates a transaction cost, that is, the cost of hiring and supervising an independent producer.
Mueller has called the provisions insufficient, warning that they will create bureaucratic roadblocks in the midst of vital investigations.
She was opposed to municipal provision of housing, believing it to be bureaucratic and impersonal.
