Power and Professionalism

Abstract

Professor heindl is to be thankedfor providing us with an excellent overview of the history of the imperial civil service during the last century and a half of the Habsburgmonarchy. She must also be thanked for providing us with an interesting historiographyof both the Austrian and Prussian bureaucracies, although, she has to confess, at least in theAustrian case, there remains an almost endless list of unanswered questions about these people,ranging from their social and economic background, to the nature and extent of their cooperationon different levels, to their political biases and national leanings, not to mention, of course, their treatment of ordinary citizens.