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The article looks at the role of French sociologist Michel Crozier who was the director of the Centre de sociologie des organisations (CSO) during the 1960s. Particular focus is given to Crozier's research concerning questions related to central and local power relations and his efforts in pleading for reform at the local level in order to better reform the government of France. It looks at the strategies and assets of sociological expertise concerning decentralization. It highlights the successes and difficulties to which Crozier and his CSO team were subjected during their sociological entrepreneurship of government reform from the 1950s to the 1970s. The author evaluates the researchers and scholar research engaged in the process which designated the function of government as a problem in the early 1960s.