Pax Leksikon is a Norwegian

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Norwegian is a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Norway, where it is the official language. Together with Swedish and Danish, Norwegian forms a continuum of more or less mutually intelligible local and regional variants .These Scandinavian languages together with the Faroese language...

 political encyclopedia

Encyclopedia

An encyclopedia is a type of reference work, a compendium holding a summary of information from either all branches of knowledge or a particular branch of knowledge....

 published in six volumes by the Norwegian publishing house Pax Forlag

Pax Forlag

Pax Forlag is a Norwegian publishing house, established in 1964.Pax Forlag has issued a selected reprint of the "working class" encyclopaedia Arbeidernes Leksikon in 1974, and the political encyclopaedia Pax Leksikon ....

 from 1978 to 1981.

Editors were Hans Fredrik Dahl, Jon Elster

Jon Elster

Jon Elster is a Norwegian social and political theorist who has authored works in the philosophy of social science and rational choice theory...

, Irene Iversen, Siri Nørve, Tor Inge Romøren, Rune Slagstad

Rune Slagstad

Rune Slagstad is a Norwegian historian, philosopher and legal theorist. In addition to professional work, he has since the late sixties contributed actively to public debate on a variety of issues.- Biography :...

 and Mariken Vaa. More than 400 experts contributed to the encyclopedia.

The encyclopedia has been made available online.

List of volumes

This is a list of the six volumes of the encyclopedia Pax Leksikon (ISBN 82-530-0983-6 for all volumes 1-6).

• Volume 1: A-B. Published 1978 (ISBN 82-530-0975-5)
• Volume 2: C-G. Published 1979 (ISBN 82-530-0976-3)
• Volume 3: H-Ks. Published 1979 (ISBN 82-530-0977-1)
• Volume 4: Ku-N. Published 1980 (ISBN 82-530-0979-8)
• Volume 5: O-Sn. Published 1980 (ISBN 82-530-0980-1)
• Volume 6: So-Å. Published 1981 (ISBN 82-530-0982-8)