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- Lecturer in Politics, Leeds Polytechnic. This article is an amended and updated version of a paper given in December 1977 at the first Annual Conference of the Scandinavian Group of the Political Studies Association on the theme of ‘The Centre in Scandinavian Polities’. The author wishes to acknowledge the debt this article owes to the stimulating discussion at the conference.