Bureaucracy

Collection of taxes

Audit of accounts

Inspection of factories

All the above functions and many other too

A set of government officials, possessed of certain traits of excessive formality, the use of verbiage and jargon as the basis of communication, inflexibility of procedure and insistence on the powers of their office

A career based appointed administrative service of fixed status and tenure with salary limited to rank and a known rank order of advancement

A particular pattern of administrative behaviour, associated with certain types of social organisation and identificable by reference to a constellation of objective criteria

The activity concerned with the implementation of policies by the direction or management of efforts of individuals and groups towards specific goals

Members of Parliament

Judges of the Supreme Court

Top political leaders

All civil servants