Unfortunately, most bureaucracies tend to concentrate on small details, sacrificing the overall picture.

Regardless of whether or not bureaucracies should be considered positively efficient or too efficient to the extent that they become negative, Weberian bureaucracy tends to offer a teleological argument.

FIELDS: I think what he was talking about was that bureaucracies tend to drag their feet.

Their bureaucracy tends to grow and stagnate.

Thus, as bureaucracies often tend to hide their failures, documentation in both American and British archives is all too frequently scanty and hard to come by.

And once in place, he argues, this bureaucracy tends to appropriate to itself a growing share of the national income earmarked for wages.

Or is it because the problem is so overwhelming that the bureaucracy tends to give up?

A. In principle, I'd be in favor of such limits, because bureaucracies do tend to stagnate.

The military bureaucracies on both sides tend to try to minimize the effect on them by quibbling over wording.

Mill wrote that ultimately the bureaucracy stifles the mind, and that "A bureaucracy always tends to become a pedantocracy."