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Part 1 What government does, and how it does it: what government does -the functions of government, the tools of government. Part 2 Organizationsand the role of government's structure: organization theory - foundations -the structural approach to large organizations, systems theory, the humanistchallenge, the pluralist challenge, the challenge of third-partyadministration; organization theory - strategies and tactics foradministration reform - reform in America, conflicting theories, all theworld's a stage; the executive branch - executive branch components,direction of the executive branch; organization problems - the search foreffective organization, reorganization. Part 3 People in governmentorganizations: the civil service - public employment, managing the system,position classification, staffing, pay, employee rights and obligations; thehigher public service - how elite is the elite?, the mix of political andcareer officials, political executives, the senior executive service, pay.Part 4 Government decisions - making and implementing them: decision making -basic problems, rational decision making, bargaining, participative decisionmaking, public choice, limits on decision making; budgeting - the role of thebudget, budget making, budget appropriation, budget execution; implementation- judging program success and failure, problems of performance,intergovernmental relations, contracting, the government's dilemma, theimportance of feedback. Part 5 Administration in a democracy: legislativecontrol of administration - the paradox of oversight, committee oversight ofadministration, the general accounting office, the legislative veto;regulation and the courts - the regulatory task, regulatory procedure,courts' regulation of the regulators, presidential regulation of theregulators; conclusion - bureaucratic accountability, ethics, the publicservice.