Bureaucracy

A system of carrying on the business of government by means of departments or bureaus, each under the control of a chief, in contradiction to a system in which the officers of government have an associated authority and responsibility; also, government conducted on this system.

Government officials, collectively.

any organization in which action is obstructed by insistence on unnecessary procedures and red tape

a government that is administered primarily by bureaus that are staffed with nonelective officials