Tagged: bureaucracy

Public service efficiency: Going postal - The Dismal Science

Eric Crampton • Dec 27, 2014 •

• Andrei Shleifer,
• bureaucracy,
• New Zealand

It takes less time for a badly addressed letter to get back to the US from New Zealand than it does to get back there from Canada. At least that's what Chong, La Porta, Lopez-de-Silanes and Shleifer find in a test of public sector efficiency [work... Read More

ACC and Sex - MacDoctor

Jim McVeagh • Oct 18, 2009 •

• ACC,
• bureaucracy,
• DHBs,
• Domestic Violence,
• DSM 4,
• greens,
• Sciblogs,
• Sexual abuse,
• Spin

The Frog continues his series on ACC changes, complaining this time about the changes to the management of sexual abuse counseling. Interestingly, Frog is moaning about counsellors having to provide a DSM IV mental health diagnosis, which is odd, because they have always been expected to provide a diagnosis from DSM IV. These diagnoses are [...] … Read More