Choosing an Electoral System: The Primacy of the Particular

Issue Date January 1993
Volume 4
Issue 1
Page Numbers 53-65
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About the Author

Ken Gladdish teaches comparative European politics at the University of Reading in England, where he is currently head of the Department of Politics. He has written extensively on the Netherlands, also on Portugal, and more generally on representation, ethnicity, and the etiology of political science.

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