A government cobbled together with the help of the United States remains nearly bankrupt, without many functioning agencies.
About 20 African countries have dedicated road safety authorities, says Tawia Addo-Ashong, programme manager of the World Bank's Global Road Safety Facility, but fewer than five of those nations have fully functioning agencies.
"Donaldson seems to have done a good job of restoring the S.E.C. as a functioning agency," she said.
Once the department is approved, it could take up to a year to coalesce into a functioning agency, as the administration begins the task of combining 22 agencies with independent histories into a single entity designed to prevent terrorist attacks.
Even more important, the downsizing of our government has put the USA on the road to being Pakistan, where the only functioning agency is the military.
To meet the booming demand, a functioning agency needs internet designers, technologists, data analysts and mobile specialists of all kinds to staff the work.
The DEA, whatever the value of its ultimate mission, is widely credited as a highly functioning agency, with an impressive array of confidential informants, the ability to trace complex financial transactions and a history of successfully placing undercover operatives deep inside closed groups of militants.
Dreyfus said this was another instance where Brandis had attacked the independent functions of agencies within his portfolio – including the Human Rights Commission, the Australia Council, and simultaneously starving the Law Reform Commission of important references while plying it with ideological ones.
The central idea is to use the government's regional employment offices as employers, functioning as agencies for temporary workers.
News corporations function as agencies within what Bernstein refers to as 'the field of symbolic control'; such agencies regulate 'the means, contexts and legitimate possibilities of cultural reproduction' (Bernstein 1990: 46).
