From the very top, there appears to be an arrogant disregard for the established processes of government.
His mission to let the public in on hitherto secret processes of government was not always popular.
"It undermines confidence in our processes of government, making it difficult to untangle the motivation behind policy decisions.
Keenan's chief of staff, Peter Soros, wrote to Dreyfus refusing to produce diary entries because they contain matters about "the deliberative processes of government".
Journalism has become obsessed with the processes of government, but incurious about any complex problem that cannot be blamed upon some hapless minister.
Other conditions of the survival of political systems relate to the effectiveness of the structures and processes of government in meeting the demands placed on them.
Yet Frederick's unwillingness ever to admit a mistake or change his mind tended, as he grew older, to make the processes of government increasingly rigid and inflexible.
Ministers now came to share with the king responsibility for the processes of government, and it became their task to defend policy proposals in parliament.
We know from Lord Butler's Iraq report that the New Labour project eschewed the traditional processes of government – cabinet meetings, minutes, that sort of old-fashioned stuff – in favour of chats on the sofa.
He was too distracted by war and foreign policy, and too bored by the processes of government to know if the people working for him were following through on his proposals.
The judiciary now decided the competences of the various branches of government, including their own, and set limits not only to the processes of government but also to its goals with regard to individual rights.
