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useful cultural insights but very little political information. Donald S. Connery's analytical, eminently readable The Scandinavians (New York, 1966) is still relevant and highly useful for background information on the stable Nordic area.

Official statistical and interpretive studies in the Nordic area are objective and reliable. The most widely used official statistical review is the yearly Statistisk Arbog (Copenhagen), covering several facets of Danish political life, with English subtitles, and featuring concise compilations of national and local election results over the past two decades. The completely bilingual (English and Swedish) Yearbook of Nordic Statistics (Stockholm) is a useful complementary study. See also well analyzed political material in monthly Nordisk Kontakt (Stockholm), for which, however, a knowledge of Swedish is required.

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