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Both Constantine and the Christian emperors who succeeded him attempted to manage the church and Christian orthodoxy through ecumenical councils, new laws, and increased bureaucratization in the Roman government.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

Toward the end of the recess, the union member Miranda Sings raised a complaint about increasing bureaucratization of the union body, citing concerns that perhaps “the leadership was not sufficiently interested in advancing class struggle.”

From New York Times • Jan. 24, 2020

Graeber, the anthropologist of bureaucracy, suggests bureaucratization is becoming more common as Western economies export manufacturing work to developing countries.

From Scientific American • Nov. 2, 2017

We know from painful experience that changes of structure which are not accompanied by a sincere conversion of mind and heart sooner or later end up in bureaucratization, corruption and failure.

From Time • Jul. 10, 2015

The forces of modernity — of technological development, of growing bureaucratization — would, it was then believed, push both systems in the same evolutionary direction.

From Salon • May 27, 2015