Debate—Proportional Representation: Double-Checking the Evidence

Issue Date Summer 1991
Volume 2
Issue 3
Page Numbers 42-48
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About the Author

Arend Lijphart is Research Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of many studies of democratic institutions, the governance of deeply divided societies, and electoral systems.

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