In his landmark study, “Patterns of Democracy: Government Forms and Performance in Thirty-Six Democracies (1999)”, internationally renowned political scientist Arend Lijphart assessed and compared the performance of majoritarian democracies associated with winner take all voting systems and consensus democracies associated with proportional representation systems.
Dans son étude marquante intitulée « Patterns of Democracy: Government Forms and Performance in Thirty-Six Democracies (1999) », Arend Lijphart, politologue de renommée internationale, a évalué et comparé le rendement des démocraties majoritaires uninominales à un tour et celui des démocraties de consensus au système de représentation proportionnelle.