Concise Encyclopedia of Democracy

List of contents

A; Abolitionism; Absolutism; Accountability of Public Officials; Adams, John (1735-1826); Adenauer, Konrad (1876-1967); Affirmative Action; Afghanistan; Africa, North; Africa, Subsaharan; Albania; Algeria; Anarchism; Angola; Anthony, Susan B. (1820-1906); Anti-Federalists; Antigua and Barbuda; Apartheid; Apportionment; Argentina; Arias Sánchez, Oscar (1940- ); Aristotle (384-322 BCE); Armenia; Articles of Confederation; Asia, East; Asia, South; Asia, Southeast; Assembly, Freedom of; Athenian Democracy; Aung San Suu Kyi (1945- ); Australia and New Zealand; Austria; Authoritarianism; Autocracy; Azerbaijan; B; Bahamas; Bahrain; Baker V. Carr (1962); Ballot; Baltic States; Bangladesh; Barbados; Belarus; Belgium; Belize; Benin; Bhutan; Bicameral Legislature; Bill of Rights (English); Bill of Rights (U.S.); Black Codes; Bolívar, Simón (1783-1830); Bolivia; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Botswana; Brazil; Brown V. Board of Education of Topeka (1954); Brunei; Buddhism; Bulgaria; Bureaucracy; Burke, Edmund (1729-1797); Burkina Faso; Burma; Burundi; C; Cabinet; Cabinet Government; Calhoun, John C(Aldwell) (1782-1850); Cambodia; Cameroon; Canada; Candidate Selection and Recruitment; Cape Verde; Capitalism; Caribbean; Catholicism, Roman; Caucus; Censorship; Central African Republic; Central America; Chad; Checks and Balances; Chile; China, People's Republic of; Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); Cicero, Marcus Tullius (106-43 BCE); Citizenship; City-States; Civic Education; Civil Disobedience; Civil Liberties and Civil Rights; Civil Rights; Civil Rights Movement; Civil Service; Civil War Amendments; Coalition; Colombia; Colonialism; Common Law; Communism; Confederation; Confucianism; Congo, Democratic Republic of; Congo, Republic of; Congress (U.S.); Conservative Party (U.K.); Consociational Democracy; Constitution; Constitution (U.K.); Constitution (U.S.); Constitutional Monarchy; Conventions, Political; Costa Rica; Covenant; Critiques of Democracy; Croatia; Cuba; Czech Republic; D; Declaration of Independence; Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen; De Gaulle, Charles (1890-1970); De Klerk, F(rederik) W(illem) (1936- ); Democracy; Democratic Party (U.S.); Democratization; Denmark; Desegregation; Despotism; Dictatorship; Direct Democracy; Disability Rights Movement; Disraeli, Benjamin (1804-1881); Districting; Divine Right; Djibouti; Dominica; Dominican Republic; Douglass, Frederick (1817-1895); Dred Scott V. Sandford (1857); E; Ecuador; Egypt; El Salvador; Election Campaigns; Elections, Monitoring; Electoral College; Electoral Systems; Emancipation Proclamation; Engel V. Vitale (1962); Engels, Friedrich (1820-1895); Equal Rights Amendment; Equatorial Guinea; Eritrea; Estonia; Ethiopia; Europe, East Central; Europe, Western; European Union; Executive; Head of State; Head of Government; F; Faction; Fascism; Federalism; Federalist Papers; Federalists; Fifteenth Amendment; Finland; First Amendment; Four Freedoms; Fourteen Points; Fourteenth Amendment; France; Franchise; G; Gabon; Gambia, The; Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand (1869-1948); Gay Rights Movement; Georgia; Germany; Gerrymandering; Gettysburg Address; Ghana; Gideon V. Wain Wright (1963); Gitlow V. New York (1925); Gladstone, William E(Wart) (1809-1898); Gorbachev, Mikhail (Sergeyevich) (1931- ); Greece; Grenada; Griswold V. Connecticut (1965); Guatemala; Guinea; Guinea-Bissau; Guyana; H; Haiti; Hamilton, Alexander (1755(?)-1804); Havel, Václav (1936- ); Hinduism; Hobbes, Thomas (1588-1679); Honduras; House of Commons (U.K.); House of Lords (U.K.); House of Representatives (U.S.); Human Rights; Hungary; I; Iceland; Impeachment; India; Indonesia; Initiative; Interest Groups; Iran; Iraq; Ireland; Iroquois Confederation; Islam; Israel; Italian City-States; Italy; Ivory Coast; J; Jackson, Andrew (1767-1845); Jacksonian Democracy; Jamaica; Japan; Japanese-American Internment; Jefferson, Thomas (1743-1826); Jim Crow Laws; Jinnah, Mohammad Ali (1876-1948); Jordan; Judaism; Judicial Review; Judicial Systems; Justifications for Democracy; K; Kant, Immanuel (1724-1804); Kazakhstan; Kenya; Kenyatta, Jomo (18937-1978); Kerensky, Alexander (Fedorovich) (1881-1970); King, Martin Luther, Jr. (1929-1968); Korea, North; Korea, South; Korematsu V. United States (1944); Kuwait; Kyrgyzstan; L; Labour Party (U.K.); Laos; Latvia; League of Nations; Lebanon; Legislature; Leninism; Lesotho; Letter from Birmingham Jail (1963); Liberalism; Liberia; Libya; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Lithuania; Locke, John (1632- 1704); Luxembourg; M; Macedonia; Machiavelli, Niccolo (1469-1527); Machine Politics; Madagascar; Madison, James (1751-1836); Magna Carta; Malawi; Malaysia; Mali; Mandela, Nelson (1918- ); Mapp V. Ohio (1961); Marbury V. Madison (1803); Marshall, John (1755-1835); Marx, Karl (1818-1883); Marxism; Mauritania; Mayflower Compact (1620); McCarthyism; McCulloch V. Maryland (1819); Media, Mass; Mexico; Middle East; Prospects for Democracy; Mill, John Stuart (1806-1873); Milligan, Ex Parte (1866); Miranda V. Arizona (1966); Moldova; Monarchy; Mongolia; Montesquieu, Charles-Louis De Secondat, Baron De (1689-1755); Morocco; Mott, Lucretia (Coffin) (1793-1880); Mozambique; Multiparty System; N; Namibia; Nationalism; Natural Law; Natural Rights; Nehru, Jawaharlal (1889-1964); Nepal; Netherlands, The; New York Times Co. V. Sullivan (1964); New York Times Co. V. United States (1971); New Zealand; Nicaragua; Niger; Nigeria; Nineteenth Amendment; Nkrumah, Kwame (1909-1972); Norway; Nyerere, Julius (1922-1999); O; Oligarchy; Oman; Orthodoxy, Greek and Russian; P-q; Paine, Thomas (1737-1809); Pakistan; Palestine; Panama; Pankhurst, Emmeline (Goulden) (1858-1928); Paraguay; Parliament (U.K.); Parliamentary Government; Participation, Political; Participatory Democracy; Party Systems; Patronage; People's Democracy; Perestroika; Peru; Petition of Right (1628); Philippines; Plato (427-347 BCE); Plebiscitarian Democracy; Plebiscite; Plessy V. Ferguson (1896); Poland; Political Parties; Polling, Public Opinion; Popular Sovereignty; Populism; Portugal; Prague Spring; President; Presidential Government; Press, Freedom of the; Primary Election (U.S.); Prime Minister; Privacy, Right of; Progressivism; Protestantism; Public Opinion; Qatar; R; R.A.V. V. St. Paul (1992); Referendum and Initiative; Reformation; Religion, Freedom of; History; Representative Government; Republic; Republicanism; Republican Party (U.S.); Revolution, American; Revolution, French; Roe V. Wade (1973); Roh Tae Woo (1932- ); Romania; Roman Republic; Roosevelt, Franklin D(elano) (1882-1945); Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919); Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (1712-1778); Russia; Rwanda; S; St. Kitts and Nevis; St. Lucia; St. Vincent and the Grenadines; Sakharov, Andrei (Dmitrievich) (1921-1989); São Tomé E Principe; Saudi Arabia; Schenk V. United States (1919); Senate (U.S.); Seneca Falls Declaration; Senegal; Senghor, Leopold Sedar (1906- ); Separation of Powers; Seychelles; Shared-Power System; Sierra Leone; Singapore; Slavery; Slovakia; Slovenia; Smith, Adam (1723-1790); Smith V. Allwright (1944); Social Contract; Socialism; Solidarity; Somalia; South Africa; South America; Soviet Union, Former Republics of the; Spain; Speech, Freedom of; Spinoza, Benedict De (1632-1677); Spoils System; Sri Lanka; Stanton, Elizabeth Cady (1815-1902); States' Rights; Sudan; Suffrage; Sun Yat-Sen (1866-1925); Supreme Court (U.S.); Suriname; Swaziland; Sweden; Switzerland; Syria; T; Taiwan; Tajikistan; Tanzania; Thailand; Thatcher, Margaret (1925- ); Theocracy; Third Party; Thirteenth Amendment; Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862); Tiananmen Square Protest; Tocqueville, Alexis De (1805-1859); Togo; Totalitarianism; Totalitarianism and Democracy; Trail of Tears; Trinidad and Tobago; Tunisia; Turkey; Turkmenistan; Two-Party System; U; Uganda; Ukraine; Unicameral Legislature; Unitary State; United Arab Emirates; United Kingdom; United Nations; United States of America; United States V. Nixon (1974); Universal Declaration of Human Rights; Uruguay; Uzbekistan; V-w; Venezuela; Vietnam; Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom; Voting; Walesa, Lech (1943- ); Washington, George (1732-1799); Watergate; Wei Jingsheng (1950- ); Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924); Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797); Women and Democracy; History; Women's Suffrage (U.S.); Y-z; Yeltsin, Boris (Nikolayevich) (1931- ); Yemen; Yoshida, Shigeru (1878-1969); Yugoslavia; Zambia; Zimbabwe

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The Concise Encyclopedia of Democracy is a single-volume version of the award-winning Encyclopedia of Democracy. Not a condensation, the new Concise was created to address the special needs of smaller libraries.

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Product details

• Authors: the staff of Congressional Quarterly
• Assisted by: Congressional Quarterly Inc (Editor), Staff of Congressional Quarterly (Editor), the staff of Congressional Quarterly (Editor), the staff of Congressional Quarterly (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9781579582685
• ISBN: 978-1-57958-268-5
• No. of pages: 470
• Weight: 1496 g
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Reference, Political structures: democracy, Reference works, Political structures / systems: democracy