Johan P. Olsen is Professor Emeritus in Political Science and Founding Director of Arena, Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo. He has publicized widely in international in international journals and authored several books, among them Europe in Search of Political Order (OUP 2007) and Governing Through Institution Building (OUP 2010). He is a member of five Academies and an honorary doctor in four countries.

Olsen has written a comprehensive and highly convincing book. This book should be regarded as an important contribution to political science and to studies on democratic accountability, and therefore is highly recommended to those interested in democratic accountability as well as European studies.

• 1: Democratic Accountability and the Terms of Political Order 2: The Organizational Basis of Accountability: Settled and Unsettled Policies 3: Order-Maintaining and Order-Transforming Accountability Processes 4: Ambiguity and the Politics of Accountability 5: Accountability and the Separation of Talk and Action 6: Political Order and Citizens' Involvement in Accountability Processes 7: What Accountability Processes in an Era of Transformation Tell Us

Johan P. Olsen is Professor Emeritus in Political Science and Founding Director of Arena, Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo. He has publicized widely in international in international journals and authored several books, among them Europe in Search of Political Order (OUP 2007) and Governing Through Institution Building (OUP 2010). He is a member of five Academies and an honorary doctor in four countries.

Olsen has written a comprehensive and highly convincing book. This book should be regarded as an important contribution to political science and to studies on democratic accountability, and therefore is highly recommended to those interested in democratic accountability as well as European studies.

• 1: Democratic Accountability and the Terms of Political Order 2: The Organizational Basis of Accountability: Settled and Unsettled Policies 3: Order-Maintaining and Order-Transforming Accountability Processes 4: Ambiguity and the Politics of Accountability 5: Accountability and the Separation of Talk and Action 6: Political Order and Citizens' Involvement in Accountability Processes 7: What Accountability Processes in an Era of Transformation Tell Us

Johan P. Olsen is Professor Emeritus in Political Science and Founding Director of Arena, Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo. He has publicized widely in international in international journals and authored several books, among them Europe in Search of Political Order (OUP 2007) and Governing Through Institution Building (OUP 2010). He is a member of five Academies and an honorary doctor in four countries.

Olsen has written a comprehensive and highly convincing book. This book should be regarded as an important contribution to political science and to studies on democratic accountability, and therefore is highly recommended to those interested in democratic accountability as well as European studies.

• 1: Democratic Accountability and the Terms of Political Order 2: The Organizational Basis of Accountability: Settled and Unsettled Policies 3: Order-Maintaining and Order-Transforming Accountability Processes 4: Ambiguity and the Politics of Accountability 5: Accountability and the Separation of Talk and Action 6: Political Order and Citizens' Involvement in Accountability Processes 7: What Accountability Processes in an Era of Transformation Tell Us