Rein TaageperaResearch Professor, Political Science Professor Emeritus, Tartu University, Estonia, Political Science |
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Research Interests |
Quantitatively predictive models; electoral and party systems; Finno-Ugric area studies. | |
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Academic Distinctions | George H. Hallett Award 1999, Am. Pol. Sci. Assoc.; Republic of Estonia Social Science Award 1999; Lawrence Longley Award 2003, Am. Pol. Sci. Assoc. | |
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Research Abstract |
Professor Taagepera is interested in quantitative models for politics and history and also in Baltic and Finno-Ugric area studies. His current work deals with predicting the number and size of parties on the basis of electoral systems, and the consequences for government stability. He has published a prize-winning book on Seats and Votes in co-authorship with a graduate student, and this line of work offers many research opportunities for insightful graduate students. Professor Taagepera has also constructed and tested models for arms races, increase in world population, and growth of historical empires. He has written books on contemporary Baltic history and the Finno-Ugric republics within the Russian Federation. His graduate seminars have included electoral systems and the history of government. | |
| Publications | Seat share distribution of parties: Models and empirical patterns (with Mirjam Allik). Electoral Studies, 2006. | |
| National representation in international organizations: The seat allocation model implicit in the EU Council and Parliament (with Madelaine Hosli). Political Studies, 2006. | ||
| Party size baselines imposed by institutional constraints: Theory for simple electoral systems. Journal of Theoretical Politics, 2001. | ||
| The Finno-Ugric Republics and the Russian State. Hurst and Routledge, 1999. Also in Hungarian and Estonian. | ||
| Expansion and contraction patterns of large polities: Context for Russia. International Studies Quarterly, 1997. | ||
| The Baltic States: Years of Dependence, 1940-1990 (with R. Misiunas). Hurst and University of California Press, 1983 and 1993. Also published in Lithuanian, Hungarian and Estonian. | ||
| Predicting the number of parties (with M.S. Shugart). American Political Science Review, 1993. | ||
| Seats and Votes: The Effects and Determinants of Electoral Systems (with M. S. Shugart). Yale University Press, 1989. | ||
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Professional Societies |
American Political Science Association Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies (President 1986-88) |
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| Research Center | Center for the Study of Democracy, UC Irvine | |
| Link to this profile | http://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=2570 | |
| Last updated | 10/08/2006 | |