bureaucratizations
Making things official
Bureaucratizations refers to multiple instances or processes of making something more bureaucratic—adding layers of administration, formal procedures, and institutional complexity.
The word typically carries negative connotations, suggesting that something once simple or efficient has become bogged down in red tape: The successive bureaucratizations of the healthcare system have made it nearly impossible to navigate.
Bureaucratic obstacles to action
- formalizationProcess of making rigorous
- institutionalizationEstablishing as norm or standard
- proceduralizationFormalizing into set steps
- systematizationCreating ordered structure
codification · standardization · regulation · documentation · paperwork · protocols · compliance · authorization
Government's administrative workforce
- apparatchikBlindly devoted official
- functionaryMinor administrative worker
- officialdomCollective administrative authorities
- state apparatusInstitutions enforcing governmental authority
Pauses before proceeding
- bottlenecksConstrictions that impede flow
- bloatSwell abnormally
- redundancyNeedless duplication
- sluggishnessState of slow movement
gridlock · stagnation · rigidity · inflexibility · overcomplication · duplication · waste · inertia
Adoption of current methods
- digitizationAnalog-to-electronic transformation
- streamliningMaking more aerodynamic or efficient
- deregulationRemoving governmental business restrictions
- simplificationMaking something less complex
privatization · decentralization · restructuring · downsizing · automation · e-governance · cutbacks · austerity
red tape
Bureaucratic obstacles to action
- formalizationProcess of making rigorous
- institutionalizationEstablishing as norm or standard
- proceduralizationFormalizing into set steps
systematization · codification · standardization · regulation · documentation · paperwork · protocols · compliance · authorization · centralization
civil service
Government's administrative workforce
- apparatchikBlindly devoted official
- functionaryMinor administrative worker
- officialdomCollective administrative authorities
state apparatus · public administration · colonial administration
delays
Pauses before proceeding
- bottlenecksConstrictions that impede flow
- bloatSwell abnormally
- redundancyNeedless duplication
sluggishness · gridlock · stagnation · rigidity · inflexibility · overcomplication · duplication · waste · inertia · obstruction
modernization
Adoption of current methods
- digitizationAnalog-to-electronic transformation
- streamliningMaking more aerodynamic or efficient
- deregulationRemoving governmental business restrictions
simplification · privatization · decentralization · restructuring · downsizing · automation · e-governance · cutbacks · austerity · reengineering
bureaucratizationssimplifications
Acts of reducing complexity
streamlinings · deregulations · rationalizations · consolidations · prunings
bureaucratizationsdecentralizations
Transfers of authority outward
democratizations · devolutions · liberalizations · deregulations · localizations