Constituencies, Electoral Change in Western Democracies, Party Identification and Beyond, and Élites in Western Democracy.
WILFRIED DEWACHTER is Professor of Political Science at the Catholic University of Leuven (Louvain), Belgium. His major books are De wetgevende verkiezingen als proces van machtsvorming in het Belgisch politiek bestel, Politiek in België: Geprofileerde machtsverhoudingen, Besluitvorming in politiek België, and many other studies of Belgian politics, elections, and campaign costs.
A.-P. FROGNIER is Professor of Political Science at the Catholic University of Louvain in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. He is the co-author of Votes, clivages socio-politiques et développement régional en Belgique and the author of many other studies of the politics of Belgium and Luxembourg.
WILLIAM P. IRVINE is Professor of Political Science at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. He has written Does Canada Need a New Electoral System? and other studies of Canadian elections, election rules, and electoral behaviour.
W. KEITH JACKSON is Professor of Political Science at the Univer- sity of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. His most impor- tant publications on New Zealand politics and government are The New Zealand Legislative Council, New Zealand: Politics of Change, and The Dilemma of Parliament.
GARY C. JACOBSON is Professor of Political Science at the Uni- versity of California, San Diego. His many writings on the US Congress and on Congressional elections include Money in Congressional Elections, The Politics of Congressional Elections, and The Electoral Origins of Divided Government.
MARKKU LAAKSO is both a political and a medical scientist and, in the latter capacity, he is affiliated with the University of Kuopio, Finland. He is the co-inventor of the 'effective number of political parties', the most widely used measure of multipartism, and he is the author of a series of studies of the cube law, electoral thresh- olds, and other aspects of electoral systems.
JOHN C. LANE is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the State University of New York in Buffalo. In addition to his exper- tise on German politics, he has a special interest in Malta and he has collected a large machine-readable data set on the Maltese lower house elections from 1921 to 1987.
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Publication Information: Book Title: Electoral Systems and Party Systems: A Study of Twenty-Seven Democracies, 1945-1990. Contributors: Arend Lijphart - author. Publisher: Oxford University Press. Place of Publication: Oxford. Publication Year: 1995. Page Number: xiv.
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