Red Tape describes rules that impose compliance costs without serving their functional purpose. Bozeman’s theory distinguishes rules defective at inception from rules that become dysfunctional over time. Burden, rule density, or frustration alone does not establish red tape: a demanding requirement may still provide a justified protection.
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Editorial orientation · Family
Model
In this series, Model names the editorial family primarily used to understand and explain communication: theories, frameworks, effects, traditions, principles and other conceptual resources. It is an umbrella for a route into the field, not a claim that every included object is a predictive model.
Editorial orientation · Category
Theories & Explanatory Models
Explains how or why a communication process works by relating mechanisms, conditions or variables. Its value is an account that can guide inquiry into what produces an outcome, rather than a name for the outcome alone.