ABSTRACT
Arend Lijphart is one of the world's leading and most influential political scientists whose work has had a profound impact on the study of democracy and comparative politics.
Thinking about Democracy draws on a lifetime's experience of research and publication in this area and collects together for the first time his most significant and influential work. The book also contains an entirely new introduction and conclusion where Professor Lijphart assesses the development of his thought and the practical impact it has had on emerging democracies.
This volume will be of enormous interest to all students and scholars of democracy and comparative politics, and politics and international relations in general.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |2 pages
Part I Introduction
part |2 pages
Part III Majority rule
part |2 pages
Part IV Presidential versus parliamentary government
part |2 pages
Part V Proportional versus majoritarian election systems
part |33 pages
Part VI Conceptual links to the fields of political behavior, foreign policy, and comparative methodology
part |2 pages
Part VII Conclusion