Meanings
- Focused on or in favor of bureaucratic approaches.
The bureaucratist regime is one whose segmentation typically occurs on the basis of division between superordinates and subordinates (and their unions).
2019, Ali Farazmand, Handbook of Comparative and Development Public Administration, page 2431 more example
Reviewing the academic literature on corruption and other ills in Sierra Leone (Reno, 1995; Richards, 1996; Gberie, 2002), I argue these literate discourses look at corruption in Sierra Leone from a bureaucratist position—seeing it mainly as a deviation from the moral superiority of the legal-rational bureaucratic rules of the state, and that the practice is a move towards the total immorality of patrimonial practices.
2024, Emmanuel Saffa Abdulai, Ina Kubbe, The Diverse Facets of Corruption in Sierra Leone, page 38
plural bureaucratists
- An advocate or supporter of bureaucracy.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*péh₂wr̥
- Proto-Hellenic*pāwər
- Ancient Greekπῦρ (pûr)
- Ancient Greekπῠρρός (pŭrrhós)
- Latinburrus
- Latinburra
- Old French*bure
- Old Frenchburel
- Frenchbureau
- Proto-Indo-European*kret-
- Ancient Greekκρᾰ́τος (krắtos)
- Frenchbureaucratie
- Frenchbureaucrate
- Englishbureaucrat
- Englishbureaucratist
From bureaucrat + -ist.
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