Bureacracy

Bureaucracies are seemingly said to be inefficient and or wasteful.  One reason as to this could be its featured element of a hierarchy. Now hierarchy is destructive in certain cases because decisions then are centralised and if a bureaucracy is centralised, which it is then again we see unequal distribution of power among these thousands of people working together to implement government policy. Power is a recurring theme in political science and as we have discussed, power in the hands of a few is more inclined to be a destructive force. 

Top government officials lay down policies and hand them down to be implemented in a top-down approach and at every level these policies are to be strictly implemented. In the case of Pakistan, bureaucracies can be seen as having more of a destructive nature than a constructive one. With the already prevalent problems of high levels of corruption in the governmental system, top officials of a bureaucracy are more inclined towards implementing policies that further strengthen their positions in the bureaucracy and make it possible for them to achieve more and more personal gains. Since in this hierarchical system there exists a top-down approach, there is only room for one way communication. Lower level officials have less to no input in any major activities and can offer less to no feedback to higher level officials. Policies are communicated down to them and they have to act upon them. This nature of bureaucracy is highly de-motivational to these officials because their jobs become increasingly monotonous and offer them little to no sense of personal development.