{"id":35,"date":"2011-10-13T13:31:59","date_gmt":"2011-10-13T13:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rulesofreason.wordpress.com\/?p=35"},"modified":"2011-10-13T13:31:59","modified_gmt":"2011-10-13T13:31:59","slug":"creative-bureaucracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-design.dimiter.eu\/?p=35","title":{"rendered":"Creative bureaucracy?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Searching for blogs about the study of bureaucracy, I came across the intriguingly-titled: “Creative Bureaucracy<\/a>“.\u00a0<\/p>\n

That got me excited – we badly need more info about the creative side of bureaucracies. My enthusiasm quickly\u00a0disappeared, however,\u00a0after noting that the blog had two posts for the last\u00a0three years. I guess, bureaucracies are not that creative after all \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

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Searching for blogs about the study of bureaucracy, I came across the intriguingly-titled: “Creative Bureaucracy“.\u00a0 That got me excited – we badly need more info about the creative side of bureaucracies. My enthusiasm quickly\u00a0disappeared, however,\u00a0after noting that the blog had two posts for the last\u00a0three years. I guess, bureaucracies are not that creative after all \ud83d\ude09  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[94,107],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7g3hj-z","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":689,"url":"http:\/\/re-design.dimiter.eu\/?p=689","url_meta":{"origin":35,"position":0},"title":"Bureaucrats as Policy-makers","date":"February 25, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Everyone loves bitching about bureaucrats but few know what it is exactly that they do. Ed Page's new book 'Policies without Politicians' provides plenty of insights. 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