Author: Ken Gladdish | Journal of Democracy

Ken Gladdish teaches comparative European politics at the University of Reading in England, where he is currently head of the Department of Politics. He has written extensively on the Netherlands, also on Portugal, and more generally on representation, ethnicity, and the etiology of political science.

January 1993, Volume 4, Issue 1

Choosing an Electoral System: The Primacy of the Particular

Ken Gladdish

Read the full essay here.

The Global Resurgence of Democracy

Marc F. Plattner
Larry Diamond

"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

Marc F. Plattner
Larry Diamond

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