The Concise Encyclopaedia of Democracy

Designed for smaller libraries, this is a single‐volume version of Congressional Quarterly’s more scholarly four‐volume Encyclopaedia of Democracy (RR 96/405), and is intended to present a broad overview of democracy for the student and general reader. Some of its 288 unsigned articles are lifted from the parent work; others are either new or reworked. We are not told how many contributors were involved in its compilation, nor are the editors named. Beyond remarking that it is unusual, not too much should be made of this as the articles appear to be balanced and objective.

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