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Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *péh₂wr̥ Proto-Hellenic *pāwər Ancient Greek πῦρ (pûr) Proto-Indo-European *-rós Proto-Hellenic *-rós Ancient Greek -ρός (-rós) Ancient Greek πῠρρός (pŭrrhós)bor. Latin burrus Latin burra Old French *bure Proto-Indo-European *-lós Proto-Indo-European *-elós Proto-Italic *-elos Latin -lus Latin -ellus Old French -el Old French burel French bureau Proto-Indo-European *kret-der. Ancient Greek κρᾰ́τος (krắtos) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā) Ancient Greek -κρᾰτῐ́ᾱ (-krătĭ́ā)lbor. French -cratie French bureaucratie French bureaucratebor. English bureaucrat Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English bureaucratist From bureaucrat + -ist.
Meanings
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Focused on or in favor of bureaucratic approaches.
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: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 243: