Encyclopedia of Government and Politics (Routledge Reference)

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The Encyclopedia of Government and Politics provides unrivaled comprehensive coverage of contemporary trends in world, regional, and national government and politics. In eighty-four detailed essays, it captures the international changes--both theoretical and factual--that postdate the collapse of the Communist regimes in Eastern Europe. An international team of experts--including Jean Blondel, Tom Bottomore, Mattei Dogan, Lawrence Freedman, Jack A. Goldstone, Fred Greenstein, Rita Mae Kelly, Robert O. Keohane, Peter Knoepfel, and James Malloy--contribute articles containing concise facts, concepts, and analyses of key issues such as political theory, processes and behavior, policy-making, pressure groups, contemporary ideologies, international relations, arms control and disarmament, human rights, and democratization.