bu·reau·cra·cy
 /bjʊˈrɑːkrəsi/  noun  ,  pl   -cies
  1 [  count  ] : a large group of people who are involved in running a government but who are not elected
   state/city bureaucracies
  2 [  noncount  ] often disapproving : a system of government or business that has many complicated rules and ways of doing things
   management by bureaucracy
   She was fed up with all the red tape and bureaucracy.
   Both candidates pledge to simplify the state's bloated bureaucracy.