Duverger's Law of Plurality Voting: The Logic of Party Competition in Canada, India, the United Kingdom and the United States

by André Blais and Shaun Bowler

Book Overview

Maurice Duverger is arguably the most distinguished French political scientist of the last century, but his major impact has, strangely enough, been largely in the English-speaking world. His book, Political Parties, first translated into English in 1954, has been very influential in both the party politics literature (which continues to make use of his typology of party organization) and in the electoral systems literature. His chief contributions...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0387097198
• ISBN13: 9780387097190
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 165 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"