Comments on: An Institutionalist View of The Wire http://sympositorium.wordpress.com/2008/08/28/an-institutionalist-view-of-the-wire/ Sort of like Socrates' version, but without the gay sex Sun, 15 Nov 2009 06:46:48 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Roland Dobbins http://sympositorium.wordpress.com/2008/08/28/an-institutionalist-view-of-the-wire/#comment-172 Roland Dobbins Thu, 04 Sep 2008 07:27:57 +0000 http://sympositorium.wordpress.com/?p=391#comment-172 This institutional behavior was codified by Dr. Jerry Pournelle, in Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy: 'In any bureaucracy, the people devoted to the benefit of the bureaucracy itself always get in control and those dedicated to the goals the bureaucracy is supposed to accomplish have less and less influence, and sometimes are eliminated entirely.' This institutional behavior was codified by Dr. Jerry Pournelle, in Pournelle’s Iron Law of Bureaucracy:

‘In any bureaucracy, the people devoted to the benefit of the bureaucracy itself always get in control and those dedicated to the goals the bureaucracy is supposed to accomplish have less and less influence, and sometimes are eliminated entirely.’

]]> By: purple motes » COB-26: bureaucracy begins at home http://sympositorium.wordpress.com/2008/08/28/an-institutionalist-view-of-the-wire/#comment-165 purple motes » COB-26: bureaucracy begins at home Mon, 01 Sep 2008 02:30:58 +0000 http://sympositorium.wordpress.com/?p=391#comment-165 [...] An Institutionalist View of The Wire, Michael at the The Sympositorium remarks: institutions, due to their very nature, are [...] [...] An Institutionalist View of The Wire, Michael at the The Sympositorium remarks: institutions, due to their very nature, are [...]

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