Concise dictionary of political science
The concise dictionary of political science was published in 6 volumes and 2 supplement volumes in the years 1890–1897 by Verlag G. Fischer, Jena. It deals with essential topics in economics and social sciences as well as law and administration. A revised 3rd edition appeared in the years 1909–1911, another in the years 1923–1929.
The political sciences represent a special feature of the German-speaking area because, in addition to economics and business administration, they also include sociology and parts of law and public and private administration as well as related areas, including extensive historical and biographical material. This conception of the 18th and 19th centuries, for which the concise dictionary of political sciences stood as a rich encyclopedic source that was well received in the German-speaking area, was gradually abandoned in the course of the increasing differentiation of the individual disciplines in the 20th century, which is also reflected in the Name of the successor organ expressed: "At the same time as a new edition of the Concise Dictionary of Political Sciences " appeared from 1956 as the successor to the Concise Dictionary of Social Sciences (HDSW) , whereby the publishers JCB Mohr, Tübingen, and Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen, to Gustav Fischer, who has meanwhile moved to Stuttgart To join the publisher. Its successor organ, the Concise Dictionary of Economics (1972–1983), concentrated even more on economic topics. The idea of political science has found a certain revival in the conception of institutional economics in the last 50 years .
