According to merriam-webster.com, the definition of a bureaucracy is a large group of people who are involved in running a government but are not elected. Now this type of government could have some serious issues if it is a complete bureaucracy. First of all, the leaders do not have to have any accountability for their actions. They had no campaign, so they did not have to make any promises to the public in order to win over their vote. The public is at complete mercy of the bureaucracy and whatever decisions they choose to make. This brings me to the next issue. If a government is a bureaucracy with the same setup as the Ministry of Magic, then there is only one party, or person, to pass laws and make decisions within the government. There is nobody to check these decisions to make sure that they're beneficial to the nation, plausible, and even morally correct.
In order for a bureaucracy to be effective, there needs to be some other elected party at the very least works with them to make the best decisions. However the most effective government would be to have the majority of government officials be elected. Then each elected official can appoint their own bureaucracy to carry out his or her tasks. For example, in the article Optimal Level of Bureaucracy, Matthew Stephenson said, "The more responsive an elected politician is to majority preferences, the lower the majority's optimal level of bureaucratic insulation. Likewise, the greater the bureaucracy's expected policy bias, the lower the optimal level of bureaucratic insulation." This quote just reemphasizes that a bureaucracy needs to be limited by an elected group in order for it to be effective.
On the next page I'll discuss the actual corruption that occurred under Cornelius Fudge, and how the bureaucratic structure was a cause for it.
On the next page I'll discuss the actual corruption that occurred under Cornelius Fudge, and how the bureaucratic structure was a cause for it.