In recent years political scientists have been particularly concerned with finding viable means of measuring the impact of government on people. One of the most important and least studied areas relating to this concern is the problematic "place" in the political system where government meets people) the point of interaction between "clients" and government officials who deal with them in the r...

The study of bureaucracy is the analysis of how administrative agencies function as organizations within a governmental system. The study includes interinstitutional relationships with democratic institutions such as chief executives, legislatures, or the judiciary as well as intrainstitu-tional activities concerned with explaining the organizational structure and behavior of administrative age...