¹ Parenthetically, it is not, as Thayer contends, the latter approach which led me to the conclusion that ombudsman have little real power; that is simply an empirical circumstance based upon their legal limitations. A further point of fact: I did not say that departments “never” view the ombudsman as a dangerous enemy; there are times when they have done so, and I have written about such cases.

² For a more extensive treatment than is provided in the article under discussion of the relationship of the ombudsman to these concepts and for a citation of much relevant literature, see my article: “The New Zealand Ombudsman's Authority System,” Political Science, 20 (09, 1968), 40–51CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

³ See Hill, Larry B., “Affect and Interaction in an Ambiguous Authority Relationship: New Zealand's Bureaucrats and the Ombudsman,” Journal of Comparative Administration, 4 (05, 1972), 35–58CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

⁴ Chapter 8 of my unpublished manuscript, “The Model Ombudsman: New Zealand's Democratic Experiment.”

⁵ For a lengthy elaboration of these matters see Chapter 2 of my forthcoming book, Ombudsmen, Bureaucracy, and Democracy (New York: Oxford University Press, 1976)Google Scholar.