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  2. Bureaucracy - Wikipedia

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    Bureaucracy (/ b j ʊəˈr ɒ k r ə s i /; bure-OK-rə-see) is a system of organization where decisions are made by a body of non-elected officials. [1] Historically, a bureaucracy was a government administration managed by departments staffed with non-elected officials. [2]

  3. Public choice - Wikipedia

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    But public choice theory must account for the obvious pressure rent-seeking exerts on legislators, executives, bureaucrats, and even judges when analyzing collective decision-making rules and institutions. Moreover, the members of a collective planning a government would be wise to take prospective rent-seeking into account. [33]

  4. Formal organization - Wikipedia

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    A formal organization is structured and organized to accomplish the organizational mission. One exponent has remarked that the “absence of structure is illogical, cruel, wasteful, and inefficient”. Because of this feature, the roles and responsibilities of individuals in an organization are clearly defined.

  5. Government (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    The abstract syntactic relation of government in government and binding theory, a phrase structure grammar, is an extension of the traditional notion of case government. [2] Verbs govern their objects, and more generally, heads govern their dependents. A governs B if and only if: [3] A is a governor (a lexical head), A m-commands B, and

  6. Rational-legal authority - Wikipedia

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    Rational-legal authority (also known as rational authority, legal authority, rational domination, legal domination, or bureaucratic authority) is a form of leadership in which the authority of an organization or a ruling regime is largely tied to legal rationality, legal legitimacy and bureaucracy.

  7. Madisonian model - Wikipedia

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    The Madisonian model is a structure of government in which the powers of the government are separated into three branches: executive, legislative, and judicial. This came about because the delegates saw the need to structure the government in such a way to prevent the imposition of tyranny by either majority or minority.

  8. Federal government of the United States - Wikipedia

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    The federal government of the United States (U.S. federal government or U.S. government) [a] is the common government of the United States, a federal republic located primarily in North America, composed of 50 states, five major self-governing territories, several island possessions, and the federal district (national capital) of Washington, D ...

  9. Neopatrimonialism - Wikipedia

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    Neopatrimonialism is a system of social hierarchy where patrons use state resources to secure the loyalty of clients in the general population. It is an informal patron–client relationship that can reach from very high up in state structures down to individuals in small villages.