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Red Tape: Its Origins, Uses, and Abuses (A Brookings Classic) by Herbert Kaufman, Philip K. Howard is a politics available to read on EtoBox.
What is Red Tape: Its Origins, Uses, and Abuses (A Brookings Classic) about?
Death, taxes, and red tape. The inevitable trio no one can escape. That wry sense of reality colors Herbert Kaufman's classic study of red tape, the bureaucratic phenomenon that all of us have encountered in some form from the confounding tax form filled out annually to the maddeningly time-consuming wait at the driver's license bureau. The complaints about red tape, Kaufman concedes, are legion. It's messy, it takes too long, it lacks local knowledge, it is out of date, it makes insane demands,
Who reads Red Tape: Its Origins, Uses, and Abuses (A Brookings Classic)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Herbert Kaufman, Philip K. Howard
- Publisher
- Brookings Institution Press
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780815726616
- Category
- politics
- Subjects
- Management, Military, Political Science
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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