0 an official who works for an organization or government department, especially if they follow its rules very strictly -- bureaukrat
a faceless bureaucrat.
Thus, where supervision is lax, district leaders, including local bureaucrats, may use their budgetary discretion and the force at their disposal for personal gain.
And it extends a well-recognized debate over how (and how carefully) elected politicians delegate authority to unelected bureaucrats.
Moreover, bureaucrats have struggled to preserve their powers in the context of regulatory reform by assuming new administrative functions involving alternative dispute resolution.
Following old habits, they still rely most heavily on their own personal staff with limited expertise and time and the bureaucrats of the executive branch.
We have in mind a government where some of the bureaucrats use international aid for private unproductive consumption or to settle a slush fund.
When the specialized bureaucrats, politicians, and interest groups reacted and tried to fight back against these proposals, they naturally attracted press attention.
They made serum control transparent even to illinformed ministerial bureaucrats and critical pharmaceutical producers.
Behind the smoke and mirrors of the state's periodic mobilisations of schools, bureaucrats and unions the affective power of the ' official ' last emperor proved ambiguous.
