- Hardcover: 624 pages
- Publisher: OUP Oxford; 3 edition (26 Feb 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0199207801
- ISBN-13: 978-0199207800
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.8 x 4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 602,002 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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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 It also boasts entry-level Internet links that don't go out of date.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.
About the Author
Iain McLean has written a number of books including Keir Hardie (1975), Dealing in Votes (1982), and Democracy and New Technology (1989). His varied research interests cover the history of social choice, the properties of electoral systems, and the political economy of the environment.
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24 of 24 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book was primarily compiled by professors at Warwick University, where I am a student. When I realised this, I thought it was a ploy to get students to give them money. However, since using it, I wouldn't be with out it.
While not every political word is included, it has basic summaries of key concepts as well as more technical explanations. If you are at all uncertain or you're looking for a good definition of a word, this should be your first stop.
If you're a politics student or just curious, this is a cheap book that provides you with a great deal of information.
19 of 19 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The Oxford Concise Political Dictionary is a must have for all those with even the slightest bit of interest in Politics. Having been designed for the use by Undergraduates and those in Politics it has almost everything you could desire in terms of Poltical Jargon and Terminology. I ordered it for my A-Level and it has proved to be an extensive help allowing me to have the extra bit more knowledge than the other books provides and giving me access to the grades that i thought impossible. It provides different ideologies views on the different subjects of politics and even has an appendix at the back full of the Political leaders of Russia, U.K., India, China, NATO and many other countries. This Dictionary with all of it's 1,700 entries has provided me and can provide you with incredibly useful knowledge for the future. I would recommend this book to all those who are either studying Politics at various levels or have jobs in Politics and even if it's just an interest in current affairs i would recommend it. A truly fantastic buy.
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Just weeks after beginning A-Level Politics, my daughter already says this book is indispensable. Highly recommended and pleasantly inexpensive.
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Great.
I got this for my friend who wanted to do Politics at A Level. It contains heaps of great information and my friend loved it :)
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Somewhat disappointing
The entries sampled to date are somewhat disappointing and fall a little short of what is in the equivalent hard-back version. (Democracy, meritocracy, oilgarchy, etc). Read more
Published 13 months ago by Mr. J. C. Hopkins
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