Bureaucratic independence from democratic control is a universal problem requiring varied solutions

Evidence

Change of meaning of self-government in non-Anglo Saxon countries: struggle against the centralism of the high government bureaucracy, but institutions entrusted to a bureaucracy controlled directly from below. Bureaucracy become necessity: the question must be raised of forming an honest and impartial bureaucracy, which does not abuse its function to make itself independent of the control of the representative system. It can be said that every form of society has its approach or solution to the problem of bureaucracy, these must inevitably vary. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 2204

Categorization

  • XREF: Segues toward modern bureaucratic rationality as an instrument of mass exclusion — a mechanism the Islamophobia toolkit needs.