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Patterns of Democracy: Government Forms and Performance in Thirty-Six Countries
by: Arend Lijphart August, 1999
Publisher: Yale Univ Pr; ISBN: 0300078935

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This updated and expanded edition of the highly acclaimed book Democracies offers an even broader, more thorough analysis of today`s democracies. Encompassing thirty-six democracies around the world, the book compares cabinets, legislatures, parties, election systems, supreme courts, interest groups, and central banks to arrive at important-and unexpected-findings about what type of democracy works best.

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Democracies: Patterns of Majoritarian and Consensus Government in Twenty-One Countries
by: Arend Lijphart
February, 1984
Publisher: Yale Univ Pr; ISBN: 0300031823

The original edition of the highly acclaimed book Democracies.

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Democracy in Plural Societies: A Comparative Exploration
by: Arend Lijphart
February, 1980
Publisher: Yale Univ Pr; ISBN: 0300024940

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Democracy and Institutions: The Life Work of Arend Lijphart
by: Markus M. L. Crepaz, Thomas A. Koelble, David Wilsford
June, 2000
Publisher: University of Michigan Press; ISBN: 0472111264

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Electoral Systems and Party Systems: a Study of Twenty-Seven Democracies 1945-1990 (Comparative European Politics)
by: Arend Lijphart
March, 1994
Publisher: Oxford University Press; ISBN: 0198273479

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This systematic and comprehensive study describes and  classifies 70 electoral systems used by 27 democracies including those of Western Europe, the United States, Australia, Canada, Costa Rica, India, Israel, Japan, and New Zealand. Using comparative and statistical analysis of these  systems, Arend Lijphart demonstrates the effect of the electoral formula used,  the number of representatives elected per district, electoral thresholds, and  five other key features of electoral systems on the proportionality of the election outcome, the degree of multipartisanism, and the creation of majority parties

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Parliamentary Versus Presidential Government (Oxford Readings  in Politics and Government)
by: Arend Lijphart
March, 1992
Publisher: Oxford University Press; ISBN: 0198780443

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Parliamentary and presidential governments--exemplified by most European countries for the former and the  United States and Latin America for the latter--are the two principal forms of democracy in the modern world. Their respective advantages and disadvantages  have been long debated, at first mainly by British and American political observers but with increasing frequency in other parts of the world, especially  in Latin America, but also in Western and Eastern Europe and Asia. The recent world-wide wave of democratization has intensified both the debate and its  significance. This volume brings together the most important statement on the subject by advocates and analysts--from Montesquieu and Madison to Lipset and Linz. It also treats the merits of less frequently used democratic types, such as French-style semi-presidentialism, that may be regarded as intermediate forms between parliamentarism and presidentialism

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