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bureaucratic (adjective), more bureaucratic, most bureaucratic
Referring to the actions of governments by a mixture of officials who often collectively hinder the efficiency of results: Bureaucratic procedures most often involve complicated rules and cause very long and frustrating delays in getting things accomplished.

Bureaucratic rule can be exemplified by “desks” or government officials who "govern the desks".

The actual work of government is too unglamorous for the people who govern us to do. Important elected officeholders and high appointed officials create bureaucratic departments to perform the humdrum tasks of national supervision.

Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes; and the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us.

From a Parliment of Whores by P.J. O’Rourke;
The Atlantic Monthly Press; New York; 1991; page 85.
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