B. Guy Peters is Maurice Falk Professor of American Government at the University of Pittsburgh. His books include The Pathology of Public Policy, Politics in Western Europe, and The Politics of Bureaucracy.

Anyone looking for a cogent bird's-eye panorama of what has been said, written, and done about the whole sweeping question of how people in industrialized countries go about defining and pursuing their common interests will find this book well worth reading. - American Political Science Review