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Public systems are often considered to be static, inflexible systems, often called bureaucracies or red tape agencies. We will consider in this paper these systems as demonstrating characteristics of stability, adaptiveness and solid internal organizational structure, which are intrinsic characteristics of cybernetic systems.
The opinions expressed in this paper are personal views of the author and do not in any way reflect opinions of any particular public agency or organization.
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Pavlidou, M.T. (1978). Dynamic Control of Hierarchical Public Systems. In: Klir, G.J. (eds) Applied General Systems Research. NATO Conference Series, vol 5. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-0555-3_62
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