They would not necessarily fight its creation—although a department those aim is to fight bureaucracy may very well seem threatening to people in position of power in the diverse bureaucratic departments. But they would definitely fight its action, i.e. any attempt at changing the way they run their services.
I do agree that the job of the department won’t be easy.
To the extent that you can create such a department withouttoo much resistance, I think it makes sense to count the idea of creating the department as “uncontroversially good legislation”.
The most powerful of all : the bureaucrats themselves. Also Moloch and entropy, so we are fighting powerful forces here.
The new department would employ some bureaucrats, it’s not clear to me why existing bureaucrats would feel a need to fight its creation.
That is why it’s a job that needs a specialized team to combat it and can’t just be done effectively in the existing structures.
They would not necessarily fight its creation—although a department those aim is to fight bureaucracy may very well seem threatening to people in position of power in the diverse bureaucratic departments. But they would definitely fight its action, i.e. any attempt at changing the way they run their services.
I do agree that the job of the department won’t be easy.
To the extent that you can create such a department without
I think in most timelines this ends up as just an added layer of bureaucracy, but in the few of them when it does not it’s great.