Jim,

A belated congrats on your birthday (this is obviously not an automated 
message but a friendly human message).

I think "administration" and "bureaucracy" are not identical concepts. 
"Bureaucracy" refers specifically to the reification of administration (i.e. 
administration becomes an independent force) for the specific purpose of 
asserting power.

Ideologists equate public administration with "bureaucracy" insofar as it is 
a expense or liability to business. But in fact more people are occupied for 
more hours with administrative tasks external to the state apparatus.

If therefore administration is simplistically equated with bureaucracy, then 
the effect is that there is more bureaucracy in the private sector than in 
the public sector.

Jurriaan 


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