Bureaucratic Pathologies

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other agencies.
Duplication, usually called “wasteful duplication”, occurs when two government agencies seem to be doing the same thing.
To end conflict and duplication, Congress would have to make some policy choices and set some clear priorities, but with all the competing demands that it faces, Congress finds it difficult to do that.
Both conflict and duplication occur because Congress, in setting up agencies and programs, often wants to achieve a number of different, partially inconsistent goals or finds that it cannot decide which goal it values the most.
Imperialism refers to the tendency of agencies to grow without regard to the benefits that their programs confer or the costs that they entail.
Imperialism results in a large measure from government agencies’ seeking goals that are so vague and so difficult to measure that it is hard to tell when they have been attained.
When Congress is unclear as to what exactly an agency is supposed to do, the agency will often convert ...

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