The double-dip hypothesis of Lee Sigelman is highly provocative. Nonetheless, ambivalent perceptions of bureaucracy are otherwise explainable. More important, Sigelman's bureaucratization scale is not a time scale, meaning that dysfunctionalities may be encountered at slow rates and thus minimized or countered. As a result, the "dips" may be quite shallow or scarcely existent. Complications with the model also arise from definition of the variables used and the possible affects of other variables.
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