Bank!) The catchword promises have empirically not been delivered flat hierarchies are a matter of appropriateness and depend in their suitability entirely on context; taking the citizen merely as customer takes away her participatory rights and duties and thus hollows out the state; the abolition of career civil service will usually let administrative capacity erode; depolitization and thus de-democratization leads to the return of the imperial bureaucrat (in its worst sense, disguised as the entrepreneurial bureaucrat same power, less responsibility); and contracting-out has proven to be excessively expensive and often infringing on core competences of the state as well as on the most basic standards of equity. Total Quality Management is actually not necessarily an NPM concept; it can be just as well used elsewhere and was actually always understood to be part of a well-working PA; project management
T h e y are brought back to consciousness by a blanket of snow, courtesy of Glinda the Good. T h e message for the hero is clear: Don't be seduced by illusions and perfumes, stay alert, don't fall asleep on the march. THRESHOLD GUARDIANS Dorothy and friends reach the City, only to find their way blocked by a rude sentry, a perfect Threshold Guardian (who looks suspiciously like Professor Marvel from Act One). H e is a satirical figure, an exaggerated image of a bureaucrat whose job is to enforce stupid, pointless rules. Dorothy identifies herself as the one who dropped a house on the W i c k e d W i t c h of the East, and she has the Ruby Slippers to prove it. T h i s wins the respect of the sentry who admits them immediately, saying, " W e l l that's a horse of a different color!" 145 T H E W R I T E R ' S JOURNEY ~ T H I R D EDITION
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