...ine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Bureaucracy by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a pu... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Bureaucracy by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley, the Pe... ...ennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Balzac Bureaucracy by Honore de Balzac T ranslated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley ... ... same streets on his way to the ministry: so neat was he, so formal, so 4 Bureaucracy starched that he might have been taken for an Englishman on the... ...y by such hopes and by the natural extravagance of happy love, Monsieur 6 Bureaucracy and Madame Rabourdin spent nearly one hundred thou- sand francs... ...rhaps she was right; perhaps she would have been great under great cir- 8 Bureaucracy cumstances; perhaps she was not in her right place. Let us reme... ...n her- self. Ideas are contagious in a household; the ninth thermidor, 10 Bureaucracy like so many other portentous events, was the result of fe- mal... ...able clerks are kept in their places, though they hold these places on 12 Bureaucracy sufferance, anxious as they are to retain them. Bureaucracy, a ... ...ns stood in place of action; a million of reports were written every year; bureaucracy was enthroned! Records, statistics, documents, failing which Fr...

... enough to live on. That’s a system that does away with stamped papers and bureaucracy, the curse of France, hein?” “By virtue of what right?” said Le...

...upporting both him and his sister. The influence of the Restoration on the bureaucracy is well known. From the forty and one suppressed departments a ... ...f the dominical meetings. Among the number we must mention Rabourdin [see “Bureaucracy”], the former head of Thuillier’s office at the ministry of fi-...

...ded many, and then cheating the many out of it again in the interests of a bureaucracy of sham ex- perts. But that seems the limit of the liberal imag...

...ss The Secrets of the Princess Cadignan Les Employes The Government Clerks Bureaucracy Sarrasine Sarrasine Facino Cane Facine Cane Les Parents Pauvres...

... being a moss-grown reactionary. Everything was not for the best. Despotic bureaucracy… abuses…corruption…and so on. Capable men were wanted. En- ligh...

... bureau- cracy that has not hitherto been an example for efficiency into a bureaucracy that will be constructive, responsive, lib- eral, scientific, a... ...t methods the Eastern and Western Powers have to attain a common end. Both bureaucracy and pseudo-democratic oligarchy have to accomplish an identi- c...

...lways been treated with distin- guished consideration in my contracts with bureaucracy dur- ing the war; but on this occasion I found myself persona g...

... that its present staff of enthusiast-com- manders shall be succeeded by a bureaucracy of men of busi- ness who will be no better than bishops, and pe...

...and I hoped to hold her in my arms in a distant grave. I did not know that bureaucracy could send its claws into our very coffins.” He now wished to s...

...country , except the purely speculative, would be concentrated in a numerous bureaucracy , to whom alone the rest of the community would look for all ... ... aspir ing for personal advancement. T o be admitted into the ranks of this bureaucracy, and when admitted, to rise therein, would be the sole object... ... of practical experience, to criticize or check the mode of operation of the bureaucracy, but even if the accidents of despotic or the natural working... ...inations, no reform can be effected which is contrary to the interest of the bureaucracy . Such is the melancholy condition of the Russian empire, as ... ...te authority from the nation, vaults into the seat, issues his orders to the bureaucracy, and everything goes on much as it did before; the bureaucrac... ...rgo anything that they do not like. But where everything is done through the bureaucracy , nothing to which the bureaucracy is really adverse can be d... ...f the community, the more complete is the bondage of all, the members of the bureaucracy included. For the governors are as much the slaves of their o... ...ble to originate and willing to adopt improvements; if we would not have our bureaucracy degenerate into a pedantocracy, this body must not engross al...

...he pursuit. There will be a bureau cracy, and persons in training for the bureaucracy, who will be taught at least some empirical maxims of governmen... ...n of public employments; a thing, on the contrary, always popular with the bureaucracy ridden nations of the Conti nent, who would rather pay higher ... ... active minded usurper) through the mental qualifi cations of a permanent bureaucracy. The Russian and Aus trian governments, and even the French go... ... the hands of governors by profession, which is the essence and meaning of bureaucracy. Whether the work is done by them because they have been traine... ...es of a government has to be made between a representative democracy and a bureaucracy; all other governments may be left out of the account. And here... ...ing mechani cally, though the work it is intended to do remains undone. A bureaucracy always tends to become a pedantocracy. When the bureaucracy is ... ...ality. That the Roman aristocracy escaped this characteristic disease of a bureaucracy was evidently owing to its popular element. All special offices... ...nment is a characteristic exemplification of both the good and bad side of bureaucracy: its fixed maxims, directed with Roman perseverance to the same... ...e than a match for the fitful energy of one man. The Chinese government, a bureaucracy of Mandarins, is, as far as known to us, another apparent examp...

...leable commodity; substitute self- government and decentralization for the bureaucracy and de- moralizing hugeness of the modern State and the modern ... ...onomic power of the State and the influence which it can exert through its bureaucracy. State Socialists argue as if there would be no dan- ger to lib... ...re- sentative institutions would suffice to undo the evils threat- ened by bureaucracy. Against this view, Anarchists and Syndi- calists have directed...

...ening competition and increasing cooperation in other parts of the federal bureaucracy, particularly the law enforcement and intelligence communities.... ..., the significance of the Iran-Contra affair was that it made parts of the bureaucracy reflexively skeptical about any operating directive from the Wh... ...trained to kill Americans.” 248 Turning to the CIA, Clarke warned that its bureaucracy, which was “mas- terful at passive aggressive behavior,” would ...