00000nam 2200000 4500 INLIS000000000008811 20200508204532 200508||||||||| | ||| |||| ||eng|| 9780313347627 010-0520008811 eng 320.473 320.473/STA/H Starks Glenn L. 1966- Brooks F. Erik. <a href="https://link.gale.com/apps/pub/2MEZ/GVRL?sid=gale_marc&u=idmk">e-book</a> How Your Government Really Works, A Topical Encyclopedia of the Federal Government Westport, Conn. 2008 xvi, 334 p. : ill. ; 26 cm The U.S. government is an ever-more-complex system that few American citizens comprehend in any detail. Even some of its most basic operations, seemingly clear in concept, are in reality intricate and obscure. Although textbooks explain how the government is supposed to work in theory, they don't reveal how it actually works in practice. This book offers a concise and objective explanation of government operations, mapping the federal government's branches, departments, agencies, corporations, and quasi-official bodies—and the bureaucracies that support them. The authors effectively bridge the gap between the government's ideal, balanced structure, laid out in the Constitution, and its actual institutionalized form today, making this a superb resource for students and citizens at large. Federal government --United States --Encyclopedias.