A nonhierarchical bureaucracy, constituting antiadministration, would lead to different sets of accepted "truths" than hierarchical bureaucracy. This is suggested by analyses like Foucault's accounts of normalizing and power. Normalizing can be illustrated by considering what counts as knowledge in such fields as education, social work, psychiatry—and public administration. What counts as knowledge, according to Foucault, is what produces the right kind of person and the right kind of behavior. Such knowledge is not discovered; rather, it is invented to produce a normalized person who "fits in." Foucault's account of power includes the idea, not that knowledge is power, but that power is knowledge. What counts as accepted knowledge within bureaucracies reflects the power relations in that bureaucracy and in that subculture. It is true that there are subtexts, but the primary or accepted text reflects the power relationship. In public administration the focal influence in determining knowledge is the fact that there is hierarchy. Truth in a public administration situation, as in any other context, is a composite of facts highlighted by a set of perspectives. Foucault (1977) urges that intellectuals should combat the manifestation of power with which they deal. The question that should be asked is whether the efficiency ethic itself is not a manifestation of the hierarchical structure of public administration practice (Farmer, 1995b).