everyone agrees that government and bureaucracy are basic to society. Some argue, in a distorted extension of Thomas Jefferson's dictum, that the best government is the least government, that the best government is no government at all. "They want the government to go away. That is what holds together the conservative movement It has been argued that, when those who subscribe to ideology are in power, they act as a"wrecking crew" that deliberately sabotages governmental competence, privatizes core public responsibilities, irresponsibly deregulates, and ignores, even encourages, corruption in an effort to de-legitimate government. Assuming that government will never go away, is the next best thing that is, inept, graft- ridden government a good thing? Some scholars think so.