ABSTRACT
The threat, curiously enough, came not from outside but from within. At the very time when the minimal, decentralized, regulatory, laissez-faire State of the entrepreneurial ideal was consolidating itself as the norm of political theory, the expanding, centralized, bureaucratic, interventionist State of modern times was coming into being in administrative practice. The reason for this was the role of its ally and instrument, the professional ideal, in the second phase of the battle for the State, the struggle for administrative reform.
