Guide to Country Bibliographies on Party Politics: 1950-1962

This survey of political parties in fifty-three countries relied heavily on traditional methods of library research joined with modern methods of information processing. The method was traditional in that virtually all the information was collected by consulting printed sources located through extensive bibliographic searches of library materials. It was modernized through the use of microfilm and computer techniques of information storage and retrieval (see Chapter 1 of Part I). Even with these aids to information management, the success of our research was ultimately dependent on the number and quality of items in the bibliographies. . . . .

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0- ANGLO-AMERICAN CULTURE AREA 00 United States of America 01 United Kingdom 02 Australia 03 New Zealand 04 Canada 05 Ireland 07 Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland1 08 India 1- WEST CENTRAL EUROPE 10 Austria 11 France 12 Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) 14 Greece 17 Portugal 2- SCANDINAVIA AND BENELUX 20 Denmark 22 Iceland 24 Sweden 26 The Netherlands 27 Luxembourg 1. Dissolved in 1963.

3- SOUTH AMERICA 35 Ecuador 36 Paraguay 37 Peru 38 Uruguay. 39 Venezuela 4- CENTRAL AMERICA 41 Cuba 42 Dominican Republic 43 El Salvador 44 Guatemala 47 Nicaragua 5- ASIA & THE FAR EAST 2 50 Burma (now Myanmar) 51 Cambodia 53 Indonesia 56 North Korea 58 Malaya (now Malaysia). 6- EASTERN EUROPE 60 Albania 61 Bulgaria 63 East Germany 64 Hungary 67 USSR 2. India is in the Anglo-American culture area.

7- MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA 74 Sudan 75 Tunisia 76 Lebanon. 77 Iran 78 Turkey 8- WEST AFRICA 80 Dahomey (now Benin) 81 Ghana 82 Guinea 87 Upper Volta 89 Togo 9- CENTRAL & EAST AFRICA3 91 Central African Republic 92 Chad 93 Congo-Brazzaville (now People's Republic of the Congo) 96 Kenya 98 Uganda SOURCES CITED 3. The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is included in the Anglo-American culture area.