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Maurice Duverger

Maurice Duverger is a French jurist born in 1917 in Angoulême, France. Devised a theory which became known as Duverger's law, which identifies a correlation between voting systems and the formation of a two-party system.

Notable publications:

King's Mate (1978)

External links:

Yahoo! France biography (http://fr.encyclopedia.yahoo.com/articles/d/d0005914_p0) (in French)

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