American administration affects all levels of government, public affairs, education, the military, etc. It has formed a class unto itself, and as a class has largely organized itself in a manner to protect and promote its own interests even at the expense of other groups in American society. It typically articulates information networks that are privileged, that deal with information that often would violate constitutionally granted rights if it were made public, and that operate in "behind closed" doors manner to manipulate resources and power without full public accountability to the people whose tax-dollars pay their high salaries. If an administrator is removed for ineptitude, incapacity or downright lack of character, unlike their working class or middle-class counter-part, put into the unemployment line at the "economic development office." Rather, they are simply relocated, or even "promoted" out of harms way, and given a more adaptable administrative posting somewhere else. What makes this class of people so untouchable in American society is beyond me, although the collusion of authority and power, of economic interest and privileged access to information, have a great deal to do with it, without a doubt. There is no public school, hospital, government office in American society today, whether we are talking about Fairbanks, Alaska, Los Angeles, Chicago, or Columbia, South Carolina, that is not similarly affected by the same sets of problems. I do not understand either what's so bad about holding our public employees at these administrative levels openly accountable for what they do, what they take, what they make and how they end up.

 Administrative Authoritarianism is a peculiar form of social authoritarianism that is a consequence of American cultural dynamics and social ethos, and American socio-structural patterning. In spite of its modern efflorescence and elaboration, it has in historical fact been around from before the beginning of the American system. The kind of corruption and inefficiency it has given rise to has been persistent in the background of scandals and contracts gone bad in the history of American government. Certain dynamics of traditional American cultural life entails that this kind of consequence will remain. At the same time, the organization of American government was largely achieved through hard-won compromise and wheeling and dealing, processes still characteristic of decision making and legal construction in the US today, and this has led to a kind of system that is not without its Catch-22's, loop-holes and structural contradictions.

American government was set up in a manner that permitted the development of the fourth branch of American government to be articulated on a daily basis, at all levels of society, without direct or even indirect democratic control or accountability to the American people. Political administrations may come and go at all levels of American political organization, as the pendulum of party politics and social interests swings between Democrats and Republicans, but the administrative structure of the American system that allows the political platform to be articulated in society remains mostly unaffected in a "carry on" business as usual modality. 

There is of course always a changing of the guard at higher level, critical positions as the winning party rewards its loyal and effective followers. As the American government has grown increasingly powerful over the decades, it can be said to have become all powerful and largely corrupted by the processes of Administrative Authoritarianism and the form of class stratification that this facet of American social life has entailed. Many in American history have argued that the American government is perhaps too powerful and too over-controlling and assertive of its own mandates upon the American people. The American government has always been quick to justify and legitimize its augmentation of authority and power as the epitome of the expression of the mandate and collective interests of the American people.

There is a counter-theme in American political culture and life that was built-into the American government from the beginning. It gains its greatest expression in the Declaration of Independence, the key charter and document for the legitimization and expression of the legitimacy of the American government. This document grants in no uncertain terms the contractual and democratic basis for legitimate government, and hands the ultimate power to rule to the consent of the governed, i.e., the American people.

We must ask what has come to most characterize the culture and social patterning of American administration. First and foremost are the double standards, the lack of accountability, the paternalism, the racist mandate of affirmative action that can be described as the neo-colonial "White Man's Burden," and the relative immunity and untouchableness of the people who come to occupy this class category.

Beyond this, we must recognize that this system has set itself fundamentally beyond the framework for possible self-reform, and it has promoted a culture of denial and of correctness that amounts to a structural system of conspiracy, deceit and blind, anti-democratic conformity.

The form of punishment and persecution meted out by Academic administrators is through socio-political-economic exclusion and ostracism from the system, in the form of systematic denial of opportunity structures that would otherwise be normally available to individual Americans. Legal constraints based upon a human rights model are regularly circumvented and essentially undermined. There is almost never a need for direct resort to military coercion and assertion of governmental policy domestically within the US, but the American system has witness an increasing array and enlargement of para-military styled organizations and institutions designed to enforce governmental policies within the US, with a heavy hand if necessary. By and large, manipulation and indirect control of American communications media and the active promotion of a culture of conformity, serves to preempt the need to assert forms of external control. The system is capable of relying for the most part on the indirect sanctions of the socio-cultural conformity to ensure its grip and control over resources and people within the American system.

American administration has had several important influences: the American military and the military-industrial complex that sprang up during the post-WWII cold war era; American Big Business, particularly oil-related industries including automobile manufacturers, air-craft manufacturers, industrial equipment and machine manufacturers, American agro-business, etc., If the American military has absorbed and been affected by Big Business interests and even enculturated into a more business like model and mode of functioning, it is often ignored how much Big Business has been influenced and affected in its model by the American military and by a military model of social organization. This is directly correlated to the number of high-ranking officers of the American military who assume administrative positions after their terms of military service are over.