Sentences with phrase «bureaucrats than politicians»

But as political scientist Francis Fukuyama has shown in his research on how democracies function, it's often much more important to pay attention to bureaucrats than politicians when evaluating how well governments function.

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Russell Hobby, general secretary of NAHT, is calling for a «better system of assessment - one that works for parents, pupils and teachers, rather than one that just ticks boxes for bureaucrats and politicians».

«Free schools are better placed to drive up standards and give parents what they want because they give more control to heads, teachers and governors, rather than politicians and bureaucrats.»

Now is the time to call for a better system of assessment — one that works for parents, pupils and teachers, rather than one that just ticks boxes for bureaucrats and politicians.»

Here's an axiom to consider, a basic truth I bet politicians and municipal bureaucrats understand better than anyone else: Basic infrastructure costs a lot of money and it requires ugly work that's hard to get done on time and on budget and it never, ever pulls in the votes.

Politicians, journalists, scientists, senior bureaucrats can all tend to have a higher population of narcissistic personalities than the population at large.

«This is precisely the kind of business - as - usual our nation can no longer afford: politicians and bureaucrats deciding which energy technologies, industries and companies win — and which ones lose — on the basis of politics, rather than science, economics or technology.»

We should expect the scientists to be no more honest than the hockey team, the bureaucrats to be no more free of corruption than the third world countries they come from, and the politicians to have no more integrity than they normally display.

Two, bureaucrats (both transnational and national), politicians and journalists demand global warming / climate change talking points - thus the creation of higher (i.e. warmer) current temps than any temperatures exhibited earlier in the 20th century.

Often this is done «for the common good of the people», as imagined by the ruling politicians and bureaucrats, who are mistakenly convinced that they «know better» what's good for the people than the people themselves do.

Last week, during a four - day - long, behind - closed - doors meeting, political operatives (diplomats, bureaucrats, and politicians from more than 100 UN countries) rewrote an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) document.