Author: Arend Lijphart | Journal of Democracy

Articles by Arend Lijphart:

Summer 1991, Volume 2, Issue 3

Debate—Proportional Representation: Double-Checking the Evidence

Arend Lijphart

Winter 1991, Volume 2, Issue 1

Constitutional Choices for New Democracies

Arend Lijphart

April 2004, Volume 15, Issue 2

Constitutional Design for Divided Societies

Arend Lijphart

Constitution writers in ethnically or otherwise divided countries should focus on designing a system of power-sharing rules and institutions. Studies by political scientists point to a set of basic recommendations that should form a starting point for constitutional negotiations.

Books:

The Global Resurgence of Democracy

"A useful compilation popularizing the work of an influential journal… The Journal of Democracy is an effective tribune for mainstream U.S. thinking on these issues."—Political Studies

Electoral Systems and Democracy

This book compares the experiences of diverse countries, from Latin America to southern Africa, from Uruguay, Japan, and Taiwan to Israel, Afghanistan, and Iraq.

Democracy: A Reader

With such influential contributors as Francis Fukuyama, Robert Putnam, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and Anwar Ibrahim, this is an indispensable resource for students of democracy and instructors at the undergraduate and graduate levels.