Table of Contents

1: Introduction; Goals and Methods
3: Disproportionality, Multipartism, and Majority Victories
4: Changes in Election Rules Between Systems in the Same Country
5: Bivariate and Multivariate Analyses
6: Four Other Potential Explanations
Appendices:
7: Electoral Engineering: Limits and Responsibilities
Appendices
A: Proportional Representation Formulas
B: Indices of Disproportionality and Party System Characteristics
C: Data: Sources, Additions, Corrections, Clarifications

About the Author

Arend Lijphart is President-Elect of the American Political Science Association and is the author of a large number of other books including: Power-Sharing in South Africa (University of California, 1985) Democracies: Patterns of Majoritarian and Consensus Government in 21 Countries (Yale University Press, 1984 [new ed. forthcoming]) Electoral Laws and their Political Consequences (ed. with Bernard Grofman, Agathon Press, 1986) Choosing an Electoral System: Issues
and Alternatives (ed. with Bernard Grofman, Praeger, 1984) Parliamentary vs Presidential Government (ed, OUP, 1992)

Reviews

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