POLITICAL SCIENTIST

Maurice Duverger

1917 - 2014

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Maurice Duverger (French pronunciation: [mɔʁis dyvɛʁʒe]; 5 June 1917 – 16 December 2014) was a French jurist, sociologist, political scientist and politician born in Angoulême, Charente. Starting his career as a jurist at the University of Bordeaux, Duverger became more and more involved in political science and in 1948 founded one of the first faculties for political science in Bordeaux, France. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Maurice Duverger has received more than 176,874 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia. Maurice Duverger is the 13th most popular political scientist (down from 12th in 2019), the 1,170th most popular biography from France (down from 1,166th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular French Political Scientist.

Maurice Duverger is most famous for his work on the law of electoral systems. His theory is that a single-member district plurality system (SMDP) leads to a two-party system, while proportional representation (PR) leads to a multi-party system.

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Among POLITICAL SCIENTISTS

Among political scientists, Maurice Duverger ranks 13 out of 46. Before him are Harold Lasswell, Hans Morgenthau, Ralf Dahrendorf, Aleksandr Dugin, Benedict Anderson, and Gene Sharp. After him are David Easton, Robert A. Dahl, Joseph Nye, John Mearsheimer, Muhammad Asad, and Anton Friedrich Justus Thibaut.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1917, Maurice Duverger ranks 52. Before him are Edward Norton Lorenz, Jack Kirby, Manolete, Andrew Huxley, John Cornforth, and Violeta Parra. After him are William Standish Knowles, Leonora Carrington, Chung Il-kwon, Thelonious Monk, Susan Hayward, and John Fenn. Among people deceased in 2014, Maurice Duverger ranks 43. Before him are Dobrica Ćosić, Mickey Rooney, Karlheinz Böhm, Luise Rainer, P. D. James, and Yozo Aoki. After him are Veljko Kadijević, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Gyula Grosics, Pete Seeger, Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart, 18th Duchess of Alba, and Gerald Edelman.

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In France

Among people born in France, Maurice Duverger ranks 1,170 out of 6,770. Before him are Jean-Claude Carrière (1931), Raymond VII, Count of Toulouse (1197), Louis William, Margrave of Baden-Baden (1655), B. H. Liddell Hart (1895), Paul Sérusier (1864), and Sigebert II (602). After him are Claudette Colbert (1903), Pierre Bouguer (1698), Antipope Gregory VIII (1100), Gundobad (500), Joan of England, Queen of Sicily (1165), and Antoine César Becquerel (1788).

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Among POLITICAL SCIENTISTS In France

Among political scientists born in France, Maurice Duverger ranks 2. Before him are Étienne de La Boétie (1530). After him are Olivier Roy (1949).

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