Encyclopedia of American Political Parties and Elections

The Facts on File web page for this volume summarizes the book as providing “comprehensive coverage of the American election process and its political parties”. This description captures both the positive, and unwittingly – and surly unintentionally – also the major drawback. That is to say, yes, this single volume encyclopaedia does cover the A‐Z entries as a basic reference guide. The unfortunate element is that in so doing the book also tends to short change many topics in order to fit all subjects into 548 pages. For example, a key element of the recent period of presidential elections has...