Choosing an Electoral System: South Africa Seeks New Ground Rules

Issue Date January 1993
Volume 4
Issue 1
Page Numbers 79-91
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About the Author

Timothy D. Sisk is a program officer at the United States Institute of Peace and an adjunct professor of political science at George Washington University. A Fulbright scholar in South Africa during 1991, he is currently writing a book on the overall constitutional debate in that country. The views expressed in this article are solely his own.

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