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This article presents information on public administration. In his March/April 1969 paper on "Sys- tems Politics and Systems Budgeting" (which could be better titled "The Protocols of the Elders of Pluralism"), Allen Schick suggests that systems analysis is somehow a force for change as opposed to the reactionary impulses of pluralism. In the fields of public administration and budgeting the vast majority of writers ("pluralist" and otherwise) have supported the long line of budgetary reforms. While systems analysis would call for greater understanding, more research, and so on, pluralism would suggest that people who want a better break should organize to achieve it. Public administration is the inevitable consequences in governmental administration of a new view of man, particularly as concerns "knowing" and "being." In contrast with the traditional view of man impassively pursuing scientific goals, the new view of man posits a radically altered version of the human cognitive apparatus.