view of the Individual The political approach to public administration tends to view the individual as part of an aggregate group. It does not depersonalize the individual by turning him or her into a "case," as does the managerial approach, but rather identifies the individual's interests as beingsimilar or identical to those of others considered to be within the same group or category. For example, affirmative action within the government service is aimed at specific social groups such as blacks and women without inquiry as to the particular circum stances of any individual member of these broad and diverse groups. Similarly, farmers growing the same crops and/or located in the same national geopolitical subdivisions are considered alike, despite individual differences among them. The same is true in any number of areas of public administration where public policies dealing with people are implemented. This is a tendency, of course, that fits the political culture well politicians tend to think in terms of group, e.g., the black vote, the farm" vote, labor, and so forth. Indeed, this approach is so strong that some, such as David Truman consider it the main feature of government in the United States. Theodore Lowi argues that a central tenet of the contemporary American "public philosophy" is that"organized interests are homogeneous and easy to define, some times monolithic. Any duly elected' spokesman for an interest is taken as speaking in close approximation for each and every member