Bureaucratist

The bureaucratist regime is one whose segmentation typically occurs on the basis of division between superordinates and subordinates (and their unions).

Reviewing the academic literature on corruption and other ills in Sierra Leone (Reno, 1995; Richards, 1996; Gberie, 2002), I argue these literate discourses look at corruption in Sierra Leone from a bureaucratist position—seeing it mainly as a deviation from the moral superiority of the legal-rational bureaucratic rules of the state, and that the practice is a move towards the total immorality of patrimonial practices.