Structure, Culture, and Governance

Tom Christensen is professor of public administration at the University of Oslo. B. Guy Peters is Maurice Falk Professor of American Government at the University of Pittsburgh.

• Chapter 1 Norway, the United States, and Comparative Politics Chapter 2 Macro-Political Design: The Legislature and Executive Related Chapter 3 Legislatures: Historical Trends, Contemporary Structure, and Decisionmaking Processes Chapter 4 The Executive Chapter 5 The Structure of the Executive Bureaucracy Chapter 6 Cultural Variables and Governance Chapter 7 Governance in the Two Societies

In this book, Christensen and Peters manage to compare such different countries as Norway and the United States in an interesting and systematic way. By combining cultural and structural factors, they give new insight into the roles of the political-administrative systems in the two countries.