The concise encyclopedia of democracy

Congressional Quarterly, inc. (Added Author).

Summary: Contains more than 300 articles that cover democratic concepts, individuals, and countries.

Item details

ISBN: 1568024266
ISBN: 9781568024264
Physical Description: print
xvi, 452 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : CQ Press, ©2000.

Contents / Notes

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 423-432) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Abolitionism -- Absolutionism -- Accountability of Public Officials -- Adams, John -- Adenauer, Konrad -- Affirmative Action -- Africa, North -- Africa, Subsaharan -- Anarchism -- Anthony, Susan B -- Anti-Federalists -- Apartheid -- Apportionment -- Argentina -- Arias Sanchez, Oscar -- Aristotle -- Articles of Confederation -- Asia, East -- Asia, South -- Asia, Southeast -- Assembly, Freedom of -- Athenian Democracy -- Aung San Suu Kyi -- Australia and New Zealand -- Authoritarianism -- Autocracy -- Baker vs Carr -- Ballot -- Baltic States -- Bicameral Legislature -- Bill of Rights -- Black Codes -- Bolivar, Simon -- Brazil -- Brown vs Board of Education of Topeka -- Buddhism -- Bureaucracy -- Burke, Edmund -- Cabinet -- Calhoun, John C -- Canada -- Candidate Selection and Recruitment -- Capitalism -- Caribbean -- Catholicism, Roman -- Caucus -- Censorship -- Central America -- Checks and Balances -- Chile -- China, Peopleʼs Republic of -- Churchill, Winston -- Cicero, Marcus Tullius -- Citizenship -- Civic Education -- Civil Disobedience -- Civil Liberties and Civil Rights -- Civil Rights Movement -- Civil Service -- Civil War Amendments -- Coalition -- Colonialism -- Common Law -- Communism -- Confederation -- Confucianism -- Congress -- Conservative Party -- Consociational Democracy -- Constitution -- Conventions, Political -- Covenant -- Critiques of Democracy -- Declaration of Independence -- Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen -- De Gaulle, Charles -- De Klerk, F W -- Democratic Party -- Democratization -- Desegregation -- Despotism -- Dictatorship -- Direct Democracy -- Disability Rights Movement -- Disraeli, Benjamin -- Divine Right -- Douglass, Frederick -- Dred Scott V Sandford -- Election Campaigns -- Elections, Monitoring -- Electoral College -- Electoral Systems -- Emancipation Proclamation -- Engel v. Vitale -- Engels, Friedrich -- Equal Rights Amendment -- Europe, East Central.