Political Science: Country Information

The Europa World Year Book provides detailed country surveys containing the analytical, statistical and directory information for over 250 countries and territories.

Featuring more than 200 entries on countries and territories throughout the world, this volume provides coverage of all major and minor political parties and groups in each political system. It also provides names of key ambassadors and international memberships of each country, plus detailed profiles of more than 30 intergovernmental organizations and UN agencies.

The Statesman's Yearbook provides information on every country in the world, covering political, economic, social and cultural aspects.

"Approximately 200 revised and updated articles from the Oxford Companion to Politics of the World would serve as a foundation for the set, while over 100 new entries would thoroughly examine the field in a lasting, more theoretical than current-event-based, way."

In each volume, contributors explore the relationship between political parties and democracy (or democratization) in their nations, providing necessary historical, socioeconomic, and institutional context, as well as the details of contemporary political tensions. They show the parties of their respective nations as they have developed through history and changing institutional structures, and they explain the balance of power among them--and between them and competing agencies of power--today.