In India, democracy is weakest at the village level: electoral participation is vigorous, but local elites often capture the local government, leaving bureaucrats little autonomy (or money) to carry out substantial improvements.
In February, a Canadian federal cabinet minister said hackers, perhaps from China, had compromised computers in two Canadian government departments in early January, leaving bureaucrats with little or no Internet access for nearly two months.
OTTAWA — A federal cabinet minister said Thursday that hackers, perhaps from China, compromised computers in two Canadian government departments in early January, leaving bureaucrats with little or no Internet access for nearly two months.
These realities leave bureaucrats in Washington pessimistic.
He reached his zenith in the early 1990s when - under Mr MacKenzie - he railed against the loony left, European bureaucrats and lentil-eating Guardian types, the standard victims of his "you couldn't make it up" tirades.
Economic policy was largely left to bureaucrats, and in foreign and defense policy Tokyo deferred to Washington, so politicians busied themselves less with policy than with arranging pork barrel projects.
Ever since Japan's emergence as a modern state more than a century ago, political parties have tended to be a sideshow to the real business of running the country, which has been left to bureaucrats.
A review panel found in 2009 that the ERC's management system was "obsolete" in the way it left nonscientist bureaucrats in charge of day-to-day operations, leading to constant low-level conflict and even "abusive" requirements of volunteer grant reviewers.
Rep. Jeff Miller (R-Fla)., chairman of the House Veterans Committee, told colleagues Tuesday that while the VA already allows veterans to seek private care, the decision is left to bureaucrats.
Some then funnel ill-gotten gains to these overseas relatives, leaving the bureaucrats with few assets in China - or "naked".
