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Friday, July 8, 2011

On US Government Bureaucracy

"In a 2005 study, I [Paul C. Light] found an average of 18 layers between, say, the secretary of agriculture and the forest ranger, or the secretary of interior and the oil-rig inspector - up from sevel layers in 1960."

http://www.brookings.edu/papers/2004/0723governance_light.aspx

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