Definition of bureaucracy from Merriam-Webster:
1a: a body of nonelected government officials, b: an administrative policy-making group
2: government characterized by specialization of functions, adherence to fixed rules, and a hierarchy of authority
3: a system of administration marked by officialism, red tape, and proliferation
From New Yorker Magazine:
"With the approval of the government, a renowned sexologist ran a dangerous program"
“I didn’t think what was happening was good, but I thought it was normal,” one of the foster children recalled.
"The experiment was authorized and financially supported by the Berlin Senate. In a report submitted to the Senate, in 1988, Kentler had described it as a “complete success.”
"Nentwig had assumed that Kentler’s experiment ended in the nineteen-seventies. But Marco told her he had lived in his foster home until 2003, when he was twenty-one."
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