This dictionary is renowned for its authoritative and clear explanations of political terms, as well as its impressive coverage of international relations, heavily expanded for this edition. It remains an essential A-Z guide to political terminology and theory.

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Over 1,700 entries, with more than 150 new to this edition including Arab Spring, Brexit, cyber-terrorism, global governance, postcolonialism, and refugee crisisWritten by a team of dozens of leading political scientists, ensuring expert definitions across the whole spectrum of this multi-disciplinary areaComprehensive and international, with clear explanations of political theories and concepts throughout history and across the globeIncludes a chronology of important political theoristsFeatures recommended web links, accessed via a regularly updated companion website

Garrett W. Brown is a Professor of Political Theory and Global Health Policy at the University of Leeds. His principle research interests include Kantian political and legal philosophy, the history of cosmopolitan thought, global justice, the governance of global health priorities, the theory and practice of global governance, and issues lying at the interface between political theory and international relations theory. Iain McLean is an Official Fellow in Politics at Nuffield College, Oxford, and Professor of Politics at the University of Oxford. He has held visiting appointments at Stanford and Yale. His books include Public Choice (1987) and Rational Choice and British Politics (2001). His research interests include the history of social choice, the properties of electoral systems, the political economy of the Enlightenment, and UK public policy. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Alistair McMillan is a Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Sheffield. His research interests include representation and electoral politics. He is author of Standing at the Margins: Representation and Electoral Reservation in India (2005). State of the Union: Unionism and the Alternatives in the United Kingdom Since 1707 (2005), co-authored with Iain McLean, won the W. J. M. Mackenzie Prize of the Political Studies Association of the UK.

Over 1,700 entries, with more than 150 new to this edition including Arab Spring, Brexit, cyber-terrorism, global governance, postcolonialism, and refugee crisis Written by a team of dozens of leading political scientists, ensuring expert definitions across the whole spectrum of this multi-disciplinary area Comprehensive and international, with clear explanations of political theories and concepts throughout history and across the globe Includes a chronology of important political theorists Features recommended web links, accessed via a regularly updated companion website