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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- List of Figures and Tables -- Foreword -- Members of the Advisory Panel -- Preface -- Introduction -- This Volume -- The Deceptions of Semantics and Etymolog -- Bibliographical Note -- Notes -- Part 1 The Evolution of the General Accounting Office -- Chronology of Significant Events -- 1. The Antecedents -- Preconstitutional Experience -- The Constitution and Its Early Implementation -- The Financial System in the Early Years -- The Act of 1817 -- The Dockery Act of 1894 -- Presidential Initiatives: The Keep Commission and the Taft Commission -- The Comptrollers and the Auditors -- The Heritage to 1921: A Recapitulation -- Notes -- 2. The Budget and Accounting Act of 1921 -- The Context -- The Movement for Budget Reform -- Congressional Consideration and Passage, 1919-1920 -- The Wilson Veto, 1920 -- Enactment, 1921 -- Concluding Observations -- Addendum: Basic Features of the Budget and Accounting Act -- Notes -- 3. The First GAO: Voucher Checking and Legal Compliance, 1921-1945 -- The Beginnings -- The Organization -- Work of the First GAO -- GAO Conflicts within the Government -- The Presidents and the GAO -- Interregnum and World War II -- The Nature and Impact of the First GAO -- Notes -- 4. The Second GAO: New Directions, 1945-1954 -- The GAO: "A Part of the Legislative Branch" -- Commercial Auditing of Government Corporations -- The Reform of Federal Accounting Systems -- The First Hoover Commission -- Financial Legislation, 1949 and 1950 -- Internal Reshaping of the GAO -- The GAO Transformation in Context -- Notes -- 5. The Second GAO: Consolidation and Contract Auditing, 1954-1966 -- Changing of the Guard -- Joseph Campbell: The Man and His Administration -- The Second Hoover Commission -- Professional Development -- The GAO Reorganization of 1955-1956.

This book concerns accountability and the institution initially set up for the purpose of assuring accountability for governmental performance. It enhances understanding of the nature of the General Accounting Office (GAO) as an institution and its role in the American system of government.

Contents -- Contributors -- Foreword - Alan K. Campbell -- Introduction: The American Setting - Frederick C. Mosher -- 1. Early Development of Education In Public Administration - Alice B. Stone and Donald C. Stone -- 2. The Period of Crisis: 1933 to 1945 - Rowland Egger -- 3. Public Administration and the Social Sciences: 1946 to 1960 - James W. Fesler -- 4. The Trauma of Politics: Public Administration in the Sixties - Allen Schick -- 5. Education for Public Administration in the Seventies - Dwight Waldo -- 6. 1984 and Beyond: Social Engineering or Political Values? - Don K. Price