Government can sabotage itself. From the president’s choice of agency heads to budgets, regulations, and litigating positions, presidents their appointees have undermined very programs they administer. But why would an try put itself out business? And how agencies that are subject array political legal checks statutory programs? This Article offers account “what, why, how” administrative answer...

Costs of administering old-age, survivors, and disability insurance (OASDI) are of interest both to specialists in income maintenance and to the general public. This article presents a summary of these expenses compared with several important bases: Contribution income, benefit payments, and taxable payroll. An index is developed and used to analyze changes in administrative expense levels from...

Supplementary section for Chapter 1 of Understanding Networked Applications: A First Course, Morgan Kaufmann, 1999. Copyright notice: Permission is granted to copy and distribute this material for educational purposes only, provided that this copyright notice remains attached. The security techniques described thus far are well suited to a public environment, like consumer electronic commerce. ...