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 and the coeditor (with Tarek Masoud) of Democracy in Hard Places (2022).

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