附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-221) and index.
I. Bureaucratic Elites in History -- II. Background to the Supergrades -- III. The Second Hoover Commission's Proposal -- IV. Circumventing Congress -- V. Nixon's Proposal for a Federal Executive Service -- VI. The Making of the Senior Executive Service -- VII. Reform in Action: The Senior Executive Service, 1979-1994 -- VIII. Images of the U.S. Higher Civil Service -- IX. Conclusion: Whither the Senior Executive Service?