Two Models of Democracy

Issue Date July 2001
Volume 12
Issue 3
Page Numbers 170-175
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A review of Patterns of Democracy: Government Forms and Performance in Thirty-Six Countries, by Arend Lijphart; and Elections as Instruments of Democracy: Majoritarian and Proportional Views, by G. Bingham Powell, Jr.

About the Author

Scott Mainwaring is Eugene and Helen Conley Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame.

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