This support material has been produced thanks to the emerging educational innovation project: Learning by doing: generating innovative materials for learning in Forms of Administrative Organisation [PIEE_2023-2735093]. Thus, this support document for the subject ‘Forms of Administrative Organisation’ (FOA) examined the main concepts of the first four topics of the subject. Among the topics covered are the role of the administration within the political system, the analysis of public administrations, their structures, functions and processes, as well as their evolution in Spain. It also focuses on the relations between bureaucracy, political actors, interest groups, and neo-business paradigms, among others.