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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