Political Data Handbook: OECD Countries

by Jan-Erik Lane, David H. McKay, Kenneth Newton

This one volume handbook provides the most comprehensive and detailed statistical guide available to the government and politics of the twenty-four countries in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. The editors have sifted through many hundreds of sources to select the
essential facts and figures on population, social structure, employment, the economy, public finance, government structures, and political parties from 1950 to 1985. In addition, they provide social and economic background for each of the countries covered to enable the data to be put in
context.

Hardcover

First published January 23, 1992

About the author

Jan-Erik Lane has taught politics and economics at many universities around the world. He is member of many editorial boards of political science journals. He has published some 300 books and articles. In 1996 (and 2009) he received the Humboldt Award by the Humboldt Stiftung.

He has made contributions to the study of culture, N-person game theory (power indices), voter volatility, comparative democracy theory and the principal-agent approach to public administration.