Seidman supported his argument by examining the well-known organizational eccentricities of the executive branch through a political rather than an administrative lens. From the perspective of public administration orthodoxy, many elements of the executive branch are perversely designed. There are overlapping jurisdictions, unclear lines of authority, programs assigned to agencies with little regard to the functional priorities of the organization, and agencies built on a variety of organizational blueprints using a bewildering variety of organizational processes and procedures. To a public administration analyst steeped in the inviolability of the politics-administration dichotomy and prizing efficiency as a guiding principle, this makes little sense.