Because the bureaucracy is an employer of last resort, most people are hired and promoted in an attempt to achieve socially desired goals — race or gender balancing, for example. In such a situation, the best and the brightest do not find their way to the top. Frustrated, they seek their interests elsewhere. Those that remain, in most cases, are the ones lacking an entrepreneurial drive. This situation is reflected in the product of bureaucratic action.
The bureaucracy is also clouded by ideology. Certain solutions are never considered because they go against the grain of bureaucratic thought... A free-market approach was never considered because it went against the ideological grain of the administration. This thinking filtered down through the ranks of the bureaucracy.
An analytical look at the inner workings of bureaucracy.
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