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Bureaucracy is an excessively complex administration procedure or a system of governance in which most decisions are taken by stated officials instead of elected representatives. Media represent mechanisms of mass communication (broadcasting, publishing, and the Internet).
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Over the past decades, the liberalization of information and communication technology (ICT), especially in many developing countries, has led to a multitude of positive development externalities. One such consequence is the improvement in governance and decrease of bureaucracy (Asongu et al. 2018b). This is essentially because new media technologies decrease intermediary rents between citizens and government agencies, since they enable direct participation of citizens in the public decision-making processes. In a nutshell, information sharing by means of new media and technologies reduces informational...
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Asongu, S.A., le Roux, S. (2018). Bureaucracy and Media. 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_624-1
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