1. See the bibliography at the end of this volume.
2. The measurement of power exercised political scientists to a considerable extent in the 1960s, in particular under the influence of R. A. Dahl. The outcome was rather disappointing, however.
3. This question is the object of a current study undertaken by a number of members of the team involved in the cabinet decision-making study. For a preliminary examination of the concept of ‘partyness’ of government, see R. S. Katz (1986), passim.
4. A well-known example is Max Weber’s use of the concept of ‘Kollegialität’ in Wirtschaft und Gesellschafl(1921) (1972 ed.), pp. 158-65.
5. T. A. Baylis (1989), p. 7.