Our approach which unpacks functioning within different types of mechanisms (external and bureaucratic) offers additional insights into what works in different contexts and for different mechanisms.
Social organizations are absorbed into the mechanism of state administration and "social workers are becoming more administrative in external serving, more bureaucratic in internal control and more of institutionalization after being introduced into the power network of the community" (Zhu and Chen 2013).
Instead of trying to change what you do by bringing in an outside mindset, it might be best just to freshen up your organization with a not so bureaucratic external equivalent.
My goal is simply to provide assistance in the "in-between". I do not want the residents of Flint to be without external support while the bureaucratic political leadership seeks ways to rid themselves of blame rather than trying to fix the problem they caused.
Not box-ticking approaches that prioritise bureaucratic compliance with external requirements, and that only pick up comforting messages.
Its leader, Lodowijk Aascher, tried to turn his fire on European workers in the Netherlands much as many Labour MPs have produced plans to limit Europeans working in the UK with proposals for Cold War era work permits, regional quotas, passports for London, and other schemes for external control that are archaic, bureaucratic and unenforceable short of a complete shutdown of entry into Britain.
Based on declassified government documents as well as repeated in-depth interviews with top policymakers at the White House, the State Department, the Defense Department, and the CIA, the case is a portrait of a relatively "typical" bilateral policy, with limited objectives and limited prospects, buffeted by bureaucratic pressures and external events.
And all of this results in substantial external control - building up enormous bureaucratic control to the detriment of dynamic professionalism.8 At least four of the components listed above are top-down control factors.
He ruled with the help of a bureaucratic caste, subject to no external controls and above the law, and the army, one of whose main tasks was maintaining internal order.
While many of the papers that were included in this initial literature examined external accountability mechanisms, there were few papers that evaluated bureaucratic accountability mechanisms, and there was also limited evidence regarding how the bureaucratic and external accountability mechanisms interacted with each other.
