bureaucratize

/bjˈʊəɹəʊkɹˌataɪz/

/bjˈʊɹɹoʊkɹˌæɾaɪz/

[verb]

to bureaucratize

[VERB]

MAIN VERB

to run or govern an organization or state based on complicated administrative procedures

Examples

1. As it bureaucratized along the lines of the western European kingdoms, Russia developed the rituals of a top-down autocratic state, which lasted into the twentieth-century.

2. There's databases on the effectiveness of the state, or how bureaucratized the state is.

3. Armies required additional organizations, especially ones that collected taxes, so states with large armies tended to bureaucratize.