title: Mixed-Member Electoral Systems: The Best of Both Worlds? (Comparative Politics)
author: Matthew Soberg Shugart
description: <br />"Shugart's theory of MM reforms is straight forward and compelling... Mixed Member Electoral Systems will be viewed as a mandatory component of the modern electoral scholar's shelf."--<em>apsanet.org</em>
zlib_text: Votes from Seats
  Author(s)
  Shugart, Matthew S; Taagepera, Rein
  Imprint
  Cambridge University Press, 2017
  ISBN
  9781108417020, 9781108404266, 
  9781108261128
  Permalink
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  ebooks/ebooks3/
  cambridgeonline/2017-12-06/1/9781108261128
  Pages
  308 to 325
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  Conclusion: Substance and Method
  This book has had two overriding ambitions, as sketched in its preface and in
  Chapter 1. One ambition has been within the subﬁeld of electoral studies
  itself, and the other is for political science more broadly. We take up what we
  have achieved of our ambitions regarding electoral studies ﬁrst, and then
  focus later in this concluding chapter on the wider contribution to political
  science.
  contributions to the knowledge base on electoral
  and party systems
  The book has taken two principal measures of a country’s electoral
  institutions, and from these logically deduced 