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Maurice Duverger (French pronunciation: [mɔʁis dyvɛʁʒe]; 5 June 1917 – 16 December 2014) was a French jurist, sociologist, political scientist and politician born in Angoulême, Charente.
The French political scientist Maurice Duverger’s Political Parties (1951) is still highly regarded, not only for its classification of parties but also for its linking of party systems with electoral systems. Duverger argued that single-member-district electoral systems that require only a plurality to win election tend to produce two-party…
In Political Parties (English edition 1954), the French political scientist Maurice Duverger proposed a law and a hypothesis about the relationship between the number of parties in a country and its electoral system.
Nov 30, 2005 · Maurice Duverger is indisputably the best-known and most often quoted French political scientist in the literature. This brief biographical piece traces the successive steps of his career and the various faces of his talents.
- Vincent Hoffmann-Martinot
- 2005
In political science, Duverger's law (/ ˈ d u v ər ʒ eɪ / DOO-vər-zhay) holds that in political systems with only one winner (as in the U.S.), two main parties tend to emerge with minor parties typically splitting votes away from the most similar major party.
Learn about the life and achievements of Maurice Duverger, one of the founding fathers of contemporary European political science. He was a prolific writer, journalist, teacher and lawyer who participated in many public debates and political issues.
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A review article that evaluates Duverger's 1951 book on parties in democracies, focusing on his explanations for the numbers and types of parties. It argues that Duverger's law is valid, but his party typology is not, and suggests a unified theory based on electoral markets.
