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  1. Bureaucratic Efficiency

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    A significant theoretical conflict arises when attempting to optimize for both efficiency and transparency. Increased transparency—the ability of external or internal auditors to trace the full path of a document—necessitates more logging, more verification checkpoints, and redundant cross-referencing. This overhead directly reduces procedural speed, thus lowering the measured efficiency.
    The consensus model suggests that true bureaucratic efficiency is not maximized by speed, but by predictability of delay. An administration that consistentl…