FROM CONTINENTAL LAW TO ANGLO-SAXON BEHAVIORISM - SCANDANAVIAN PUBLIC-ADMINISTRATION

While Norway, Sweden, and Denmark share many historic, political, and cultural features, their state systems and public administration exhib it important differences. Likewise, Nordic administrative sciences ref lect a significant degree of ethnocentric diversity. Although as a who le, since the 1960s, Scandinavian academic public administration has w itnessed rapid growth, an emphasis on local-regional government, and h ighly sophisticated scientific-empirical research, as opposed to profe ssional training or narrow application of technical-legal methodologie s.