RAFAEL LÓPEZ PINTOR is Professor of Sociology at the Universidad Autónoma in Madrid. He is the author of La opinión pública española del franquismo al democracia and many other publica- tions on public opinion and voting behaviour in Spain as well as in Latin America. He also serves as an electoral consultant to the United Nations.
THOMAS T. MACKIE is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. He is the co-author of The International Almanac of Electoral History, the third edition of which appeared in 1991, of the three Europe Votes volumes, covering the Euro- pean Parliament elections in 1979, 1984, and 1989, and other books such as Electoral Change.
GEORGE TH. MAVROGORDATOS is Professor of Political Science at the University of Athens. His writings include Stillborn Republic: Social Coalitions and Party Strategies in Greece, 1922-1936 and Rise of the Green Sun: The Greek Elections of 1981.
STEN S. NILSON is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Oslo. He is the author of Histoire et sciences politiques, Knut Hamsun und die Politik, and Knut Hamsun: un aigle dans la tempête, as well as many other studies of Norwegian and compara- tive politics.
DIETER NOHLEN is Professor of Political Science at the Ruprecht- Karls-University in Heidelberg. He is an expert on elections and electoral systems with an emphasis on Germany, Latin America, and world-wide comparisons. His many books include Wahlen in Deutschland, Wahlsysteme der Welt, Wahlrecht und Parteiensystem, Elections and Electoral Systems, La Reforma electoral en América Latina, and Enciclopedia electoral de América Latina y del Caribe.
CORNELIUS O'LEARY is Professor of Political Science at Queen's University in Belfast. He is the author of Irish Elections, 1918-77: Parties, Voters and Proportional Representation and other studies of Irish politics as well as books on British and Northern Ireland politics.
JEAN-LUC PARODI is Professor of Political Science at the Institut d'Études Politiques in Paris and Secretary-General of the French Political Science Association. He is the author of Les Rapports entre le législatif et l'exécutif sous la Ve République, 1958-1962, and co- author of several books including War Will Not Take Place: The
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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: xv.
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