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Political changes in the United States have produced several conflicting pressures on the public bureaucracy. On the one hand, the Regan administration placed greater demand for political responsiveness on civil servants; those pressures continued to a lesser degree in the Bush administration. At the same time, there are increasing pressures on civil servants from clients and interest groups for attention to their needs and demands. All these groups also seek to hold civil servants accountable, although in different ways. The public is often caught in the middle, and individual organizations may experience internal tensions arising from these conflicting demands. The public bureaucracy itself is composed o Bureaucracy -- U.S.A Civil Service -- U.S.A International Political Science Review 180718