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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Politics
Third Edition
Iain McLean and Alistair McMillan
624 pages
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196x129mm
978-0-19-920516-5
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Paperback
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26 February 2009
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- Fully updated edition of bestselling dictionary
- Includes entry-level web links, accessed via a regularly updated companion website to ensure that links do not go out of date
- New coverage includes international relations terms, and expansion in areas such as political science and economy, political methods, and methodologies
- New entries on topics such as insurgency, ethnocentrism, foreign policy, and the Arab-Israeli conflict
- Comprehensive and international: clear explanations of political theories and concepts both throughout history and across the globe
- Appendices listing political leaders and international institutions
- Written by a team of leading political scientists, ensuring expert advice across the whole spectrum of this multi-disciplinary subject
- Includes a chronology of important political theorists
New to this edition - Fully revised and updated
- Now includes coverage of International Relations terms
- Expansion of entries relating to political science and political economy
- Expansion of terms relating to political methods and methodologies
- Includes entry-level web links, accessed via a regularly updated companion website to ensure that links do not go out of date
- Chronology of important political theorists
This best-selling dictionary contains over 1,700 entries on all aspects of politics. Written by a leading team of political scientists, it embraces the whole multi-disciplinary specturm of political theory including political thinkers, history, institutions, and concepts, as well as notable current affairs that have shaped attitudes to politics. An appendix contains timelines listing the principal office-holders of a range of countries including the UK, Canada, the USA, Australia, New Zealand, Russia, and China.
Fully revised and updated for the 3rd edition, the dictionary includes a wealth of new material in areas such as international relations,
political science, political economy, and methodologies, as well as a chronology of key political theorists. It also boasts entry-level web links that don't go out of date. These can be accessed via a regularly checked and updated companion website, ensuring that the links remain relevent, and any dead links are replaced or removed.
The dictionary has international coverage and will prove invaluable to students and academics studying politics and related disciplines, as well as politicians, journalists, and the general reader seeking clarification of political terms.Readership: Students and academics studying politics, history, sociology and related discplines, journalists, anyone needing a
guide to political terms and theory
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Iain McLean, Nuffield College, Oxford, and Alistair McMillan, Nuffield College, Oxford Contributors:
A leading team of political scientists from Warwick University and Nuffield College, Oxford
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A-Z dictionary
Appendix (Principal Office Holders by Country)
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