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Bureaucracy and Cooperation

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Administration; Bureaucracy; Civil service; Collaborative governance; Forms of cooperation and interaction; Global and regional cooperation; Limiting and stimulating factors for cooperation

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Bureaucracy is a system of administration of state apparatus often with a clear hierarchy, rules and procedures, and special types of internal and external relations that is designed to help solve common problems.

Cooperation is the process of acting together in various modalities toward achievement a shared goals or mutual objectives.

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It is obvious that every government operates in a unique socioeconomic, cultural, and historic context, impacting administrative traditions and doctrinal fundamentals of perception of goals and mission of civil service and state machinery, the leadership model and corporate culture. Accordingly, this affects the perception of the notion of “bureaucracy and cooperation,” both individually and in connection to one another.

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Correspondence to Alikhan Baimenov .

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Baimenov, A. (2018). Bureaucracy and Cooperation. In: Farazmand, A. (eds) Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_618-1

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