Book reviewed in this article:Voitto Helander&Dag Anckar:Consultation and Political Culture.Essays on the Case of Finland. Commentationes Scientiarum Socialium 19: Tammisaari‐Ekenäs, 1983Harald Saetren: Iverksetting av offentlig politikk: En studie av utflytting av statsinstitusjoner fra Oslo 1960–1981, Universitetsforlaget: Bergen, 1983Marvin E. Olsen:Participatory Pluralism. Political Participation in the United States and Sweden.Nelson‐Hall, Chicago 1982Johan P. Olsen,Organized Democracy, Political Institutions in a Welfare State — the Case of Norway, Oslo: Universitetsforl