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want to suggest here that the tenets of advocacy and reform, when they were part and parcel of the ethos of professionalism (as they were in the latter half of the nineteenth century), represented a large part of the substance of both the public service ideal and the ethical standards of the professions. Their loss left a technically expert, but morally impoverished professionalism susceptible to moral inversion and administrative evil (Browne, Kubasek, and Giampetro-Meyer, 1995). Professions drawing on science and social scientific approaches generally postulate an ethic based on some form of
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