Universities will tend to be "garbage cans," but armies will tend to be rational hierarchies.
On one side was the orthodox faction, largely urban and prosperous and promoting a rational religious hierarchy and reformist causes like abolition.
While engineering was promoted as a rational public enterprise through techniques of spectacular display, engineers who aimed to be taken seriously in the intellectual hierarchies of science had to negotiate suitable techniques for making and using images.
To achieve the objectives of the design methodology namely maximum drift capacity, and adherence to a desired yield and failure hierarchy, rational resistance checks and appropriate balance factors (β factors) are used to balance each yield mechanism and failure mode.
In King Solomon's Mines, the protagonist Allan Quatermain presents an explicit racial hierarchy, with rational, scientific Englishmen at the top, the Kukuanas with their "lips not unpleasantly thick" next, and at the bottom, the Hottentots, drunk and ruled, like beasts, by instinct.
An optimist might hope that my doctor, or someone higher up in the health care hierarchy, made a rational cost-benefit calculation on society's behalf.
It therefore manifested the rational ritual of a conventional hierarchy (Meyer and Rowan 1977).
Clinical development of ASIT for allergy has been instructive, but limited understanding of CD4 T cell epitope/determinant hierarchies hampers the rational design and monitoring of ASIT.
In South Africa, dispersed accountability, complex rules and procedures, and an organizational culture of deference to hierarchy within it also " overwhelm rational policy debate and the implementation of new policy" [ 10].
The modern state is partly founded on rational principles and is given shape by bureaucratic hierarchies and evolving canons of law.
