So my last blog ended on an example of bureaucracy actually being successful. The Beards argue that since the bureaucracy is working so successfully on a small scale level in supplying everybody in cities with clean water, then it could work on a large scale level!  I just don't think that is true at all! Matthew Stephenson even talks about how a correct balance between bureaucracy and an elected government is needed in his article Optimal Control of Bureaucracy. He discusses how the level of bureaucracy depends on the amount of majority preferences the elected leader upholds.