red tape

Examples of red tape in the following topics:

• Termination

  • Bureaucratic reform includes the history of civil service reform and efforts to curb or eliminate excessive bureaucratic red tape.
  • Red tape is excessive regulation or rigid conformity to formal rules that is considered redundant or bureaucratic and hinders or prevents action or decision-making .
  • Red tape can also include "filing and certification requirements, reporting, investigation, inspection and enforcement practices, and procedures. " The "cutting of red tape" is a popular electoral and policy promise.
  • In the United States, a number of committees have discussed and debated Red Tape Reduction Acts.
  • Bundle of U.S. pension documents from 1906 bound in red tape.

• Size of the Federal Bureaucracy

  • Small government is government which minimizes its own activities, particularly bureaucratic "red tape. " Red tape is excessive regulation or rigid conformity to formal rules that is considered redundant or bureaucratic and hinders or prevents action or decision-making.
  • The "cutting of red tape" is a popular electoral and policy promise.
  • In the United States, a number of committees have discussed and debated Red Tape Reduction Acts.
  • The reduction in red tape, essentially means the reduction of petty government (and occasionally business) bureaucracy.
  • Though the functions performed by that office worker are at that point deemed unproductive, government job losses are often resisted by unions hence red tape continues to keep that unproductive worker in a job.

• The Impact of Court Decisions

  • Over time this tends to lead to lower prices, improved quality, more choices, less corruption, less red tape and/or quicker delivery.

• Bureaucracy

  • A bureaucracy is a group of specifically non-elected officials within a government or other institution that implements the rules, laws, ideas, and functions of their institution through "a system of administration marked by officials, red tape, and proliferation. " In other words, a government administration should carry out the decisions of the legislature or democratically elected representation of a state.

• Red States vs. Blue States

  • The terms "red state" (Republican-voting) and "blue state" (Democratic-voting) were standardized during the 2000 US presidential election.
  • Other networks alternated red and blue between the Democratic and Republican Parties every four years.
  • Interestingly, though, there was no coordinated media effort to designate Democratic states blue and Republican states red on the 2000 election night and neither party's national committee has officially accepted the red and blue color designations.
  • Despite the nearly nationwide acceptance of Republican red states and Democratic blue states, the paradigm has come under criticism.
  • Another criticism of the red state-blue state paradigm is that it has not been entirely predictive of how states will vote.

• The Supreme Court as Policy Makers

  • Nixon (1974) to surrender the Watergate tapes.

• The Eighth Amendment

• Humanitarian Efforts

  • Prominent humanitarian organizations include Doctors Without Borders, Mercy Corps and the International Red Cross.

• The Fifth Amendment

  • Under the Red Scare hysteria at the time of McCarthyism, witnesses who refused to answer the questions were accused as "fifth amendment communists".

• Socioeconomic and Racial Demographics

  • This red-state blue-state divide can be more accurately explained by looking at urban and rural voting.
  • In "solidly red" states, a majority of voters in most urban counties voted for Democrat Barack Obama.
  • This map of the different party strength in the 2004 Presidential Election (red states voted Republican and blue states voted Democrat) demonstrates the relationship between political socialization and geography.