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The main contributions the author, Vernon Dale Jones, makes to the study of the bureaucracy in Downsizing the Federal Government: The Management of the Public Sector Workforce Reductions are twofold. First, the author summarizes and contrasts the various attempts made over the past thirty years to reduce the federal bureaucracy. Second, the author provides the reader with an excellent bibliography on the subject of public sector downsizing. Although the author takes great pains to explain the theoretical framework behind the book, the methodology behind his study and the relevance of this work to the field of public administration the reader tends to become distracted by these references and explanations and finds it difficult to identify any relevant practical solutions to the problem of the inevitable decrease of the federal bureaucracy.