I think that may be what we're talking about here, is, if you have a structure that is overly bureaucratic and rigid, the policy will be slow, cumbersome, and itself not responsive to immediate problems.
Angus King: “I think that may be what we're talking about here, is, if you have a structure that is overly bureaucratic and rigid…”
On the recordJune 27, 2016
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Discussing the impact of bureaucratic structure on policy responsiveness.
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