1st Edition

The Rise of the Norwegian Parliament Studies in Norwegian Parliamentary Government

By Hilmar Rommetvedt Copyright 2002

    This work presents eight studies of different but interrelated aspects of parliamentary government in post-war Norway. Split into three sections, it focuses on the formation of government, organization of parliament and the changing relations between parliament, executives, and organized interests.

    Pluralization and the rise of parliament - an introduction. Part 1 Parliamentary change: from consensual majority parliamentarism to dissensual minority parliamentarism; parliamentary committees - performance, structural change and external relations; reorganizing the policy-making process - committee change and environmental politics. Part 2 Governments, parties and organized interests: coalition governments and the management of party relations; from corporatism to lobbyism? parliaments, executives and organized interests in Denmark and Norway; the impact of lobbyism. Part 3 District representation: the central assembly of the periphery; regionoil politics and policy.

    Biography

    Hilmar Rommetvedt

    'The strength of the book lies in ...the question of 'committe change' in the Storting. The authorbrings out well the way the 1992 reform was designed to decouple the committees from government ministries and reduce the control of committees by organised interests.' - David Arter in Representation