120 ◾ Logics of Legitimacy
a strictly impartial attitude toward the individual with whom they have
dealings, and the provision of the most ecient possible administrative
organization. (Goodnow 2003, 85)
Eciency became a stand- in for legitimacy based on a syllogistic logic in which
political corruption results in ineciency; therefore, eciency results in legitimacy.
In fact, eciency became the new symbol for achieving “man’s moral purposes”
(Waldo 1984, 53). Eciency was used to “dene what is meant by ‘good’ or
‘correct’ administration” (Ostrom 1989, 36, emphasis in original) and “‘good’
or ‘correct’ administrative behavior” (Simon 1976, 39). It was “apotheosized and
given a moral content” (Waldo 1984, 58). In