Twenty administration and policy texts are surveyed with respect to two major questions: (1) How do they define the nature and boundaries of the "administrative policy making process "and (2) How do they understand politics? The author finds that the texts give us a picture of American politics that resembles the `formless void" of Arthur Bentley's Process of Government: distinctions and dichotomies have broken down; the "policymaking process" has become a phenomenon virtually without boundaries; and politics has been swallowed by administration.
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