Part I Introduction and general observations: introduction - towards an institutional analysis of Dutch consensualism, F. Hendriks, Th.A.J. Toonen; Polder politics in the Netherlands - the "viscous state" revisited, F. Hendriks; Dutch administrative culture in a historic perspective, N. Randeraad, D.J. Wolffram; consensus democracy in a post-modern perspective, P.H.A. Frissen; local politics - the not-in-my-back-yard syndrome revisited, P.W. Tops. Part II Observations in policy domains: the Dutch negotiating economy - learning through concertation, A.C. Hemerijck; infrastructure planning - balancing between fixation and enrichment, G.R. Teisman; water management in the Netherlands - the re-invention of incremental policy, V.J.J.M. Bekkers, A.M.B. Lips; breakthroughs in the Polder - institutional sclerosis and Polder politics, J.F.M. Hoppenjan; the stuggle for greenscape - power and decision-making about rural area policy, C.E. Peters; criminal investigation in the Dutch constitutional state - viscosity or decisiveness?, E.R. Muller, A.H. Pieterse. Part III Comparative observations: the flexibility of viscosity - new social movements in a comparative perspective, J.W. Duyvendak; the low countries between divergence and convergence, M. Brans, R. Maes; explaining the paradox of the Polder model - warts and all, R.H. Cox; "Modell Deutschland" going Dutch? - the Dutch Polder from a german perspective, R. Kleinfeld; the embarrassment od success - institutional underpinning of Polder politics, Th.A.J. Toonen, F. Hendriks.
