Open AccessBook Review: Governments Around the World: From Democracies to Theocracies
Author(s) -
Shan Pritting
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
reference and user services quarterly/reference and user services quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.443
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 2163-5242
pISSN - 1094-9054
DOI - 10.5860/rusq.55n4.325a
Subject(s) - encyclopedia , population , political science , work (physics) , world population , media studies , economic history , sociology , history , law , engineering , demography , mechanical engineering
The brief single-volume Governments Around the World: From Democracies to Theocracies is edited by Fred M. Shelley, Professor and Chair of the Department of Geography at the University of Oklahoma. The task of meaningfully representing international governments in a volume of more than five hundred pages is a difficult one, but Shelley delivers an excellent work that uses illustrative examples of countries to guide the reader to an understanding of types of governments without exhaustively providing all examples. Shelley has authored several other related reference works including The World’s Population: An Encyclopedia of Critical Issues, Crises, and Ever-Growing Countries (ABC-CLIO, 2014) and Nation Shapes: the Stories Behind the World’s Borders (ABC-CLIO, 2013).