Maurice Duverger

Maurice Duverger is a French jurist born in 1917 in Angoulême, France. Devised a theory which became known as Duverger's law, which identifies a correlation between voting systems and the formation of a two-party system.

Notable publications:

• King's Mate (1978)

External links:

• Yahoo! France biography (http://fr.encyclopedia.yahoo.com/articles/d/d0005914_p0.html) (in French)