1. The proportional increase in the number of ministers was larger taking the world as a whole than in the Atlantic countries in the post Second World War period. See J. Blondel (1982), p. 180.
2. A. P. Frognier (1988b), p. 74.
3. J. P. Olsen (1980), p. 211.
4. J. P. Olsen (1980), p. 210. S. Eriksen (1988b), p. 189.
5. F. Müller-Rommel (1988a), p. 154.