EROPA Bulletin Volume 35 Nos. 1-2 | Page 16

16 EROPA Bulletin Vol. 35 Nos. 1-2 (January-June 2014) The culture of bureaucracy... Friedman and draws intellectual sustenance from the work of William A. Niskanen, Gordon Tullock, Nobel laureate James M. Buchanan and other members of the school of public choice. During the Reagan administration, minimalism was implemented through various means that sought diminished expectations of government; budgetary restraints and centralized decision making; a leaner and more responsive political establishment; and a focus on a few objectives of overriding natura