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	rein taagepera (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Rein Taagepera (born 28 February 1933) is an Estonian-American politician and political scientist.
		Born in Tartu, Estonia, Taagepera fled from occupied Estonia in 1944.
		Taagepera's theoretical scholarly work, which mainly deals with electoral systems, is heavily quantitative and modelling in character and strongly informed by the epistemology of his previous field, physics; the quantitative approach is also is his general attitude towards political science as a scholarly discipline.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /rein_taagepera.html (410 words)

	AABS - Journal of Baltic Studies - Volume XXXV, Number 2 contents
		Rein Taagepera's scholarship and activism in the field of Baltic studies can be characterized in many ways.
		Perhaps the best comparison evokes the age of the Renaissance and its elite intelligentsia, for in his life and work Rein Taagepera has always breached the barriers of a narrowly focused ivory tower scholarship and truly engaged his life, thinking and analytical abilities in a constant dialectic between theory and praxis.
		Taagepera's contribution to political opinion and discourse in Estonia is manifested in all three of these genres, and certainly ranks him among the great publicists of Estonia.
	www.balticstudies-aabs.lanet.lv /main/0315.html (1008 words)

	Etnofutu Idna texts
		Taagepera presents the Soviet idea of creating a post-ethnic 'Soviet nation' out of the existing nationalities and ethnic groups as an example of a cosmofuturist ideology.
		Taagepera admits that his three concepts are ideal types which appear side by side or in various combinations.
		Culture shock can seriously influence two generations, the emergence of the third generation may mean the recovery of the culture from the shock as the third generation will be able to assimilate foreign technology and foreign cultural influences to their own culture.
	www.suri.ee /etnofutu/idnatekst/ethno_en.html (1688 words)

	Electoral Studies. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Taagepera, Nationwide Inclusion and Exclusion Thresholds of Representation, Electoral Studies 17 (4) (1998) pp.
		Taagepera, Supplementing the effective number of parties, Electoral Studies 18 (4) (1999) pp.
		Rein Taagepera, Nationwide threshold of representation, Electoral Studies 21 (3) (2002) pp.
	www.elsevier.com /cdweb/journals/02613794/viewer.htt?viewtype=authors&rangeselected=23 (455 words)

	Political Science - Estonia (Knowledge Base Social Sciences in Eastern Europe)
		The influence of Rein Taagepera and the Estonian translation of his "Seats and Votes" have made electoral systems a popular subject at the universities.
		Rein Taagepera was the founder of the new Faculty of Social Sciences, as already mentioned.
		In the same field of research Rein Taagepera and Evald Mikkel (Taagepera, 1997, Taagepera, 1998, Taagepera; Grofman and Mikkel, 2000) have also investigated the effective number of parties, the election threshold in electing national representation bodies, and the development and genealogy of Estonian political parties.
	www.cee-socialscience.net /archive/politicalscience/estonia/report1.html?no=no46_106 (6802 words)

	Amazon.ca: Estonia: Return to Independence: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In this book, Taagepera traces the evolution of Estonia from prehistory to the present, when a radical turn of events in the former U.S.S.R. once again altered the destiny of this Baltic nation.
		Rein chose to write 'Estonia' in a personal style rather than an academic one and succeeded beautifully.
		Taagepera mixes concise, academic prose with a dose of literary caprice when relating personal anecdotes and ingenious metaphors, resulting in a book about much more than the Estonian national identity, or the Estonian struggle for freedom from the USSR.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0813311993 (398 words)

	Estonia during World War II
		This was in sharp contrast to Estonia’s election of 1938, in which several parties participated, and voters did not fear punishment for voting a particular way (Taagepera 62).
		The color of the soldiers’ uniforms, or even the side for which they were fighting mattered little to the countries occupied and devastated by the great powers of World War II.
		Taagepera, Rein, Estonia: Return to Independence (San Francisco: Westview Press Inc., 1993), 58-69.
	www.bu.edu /econ/faculty/kyn/newweb/economic_systems/NatIdentity/FSU/Baltics/Estonia/estonia_wwii.htm (1274 words)

	Professor Matthew Søberg Shugart
		Rein Taagepera and Matthew Soberg Shugart, Seats and Votes: The Effects and Determinants of Electoral Systems.
		Rein Taagepera and Matthew Soberg Shugart, “Predicting the Number of Parties: A Quantitative Model of Duverger’s Mechanical Effect.” American Political Science Review 87, 2 (June, 1993): 455–64.
		Rein Taagepera and Matthew Soberg Shugart, “Designing Electoral Systems.” Electoral Studies 8:1 (1989):49–58.
	dss.ucsd.edu /~mshugart/Elections_and_electoral_systems.html (534 words)

	Res Publica founder Taagepera leaves party
		Taagepera, his wife Mare, Jaan Einasto and Lauri Aaspollu, all asked to have their names deleted from the party member list on Sept. 5, citing the party’s shift from center-right to far right as the reason.
		Res Publica’s approach to an education- and knowledge-based economy was wavering, the group said, adding that recent methods of governance were not unlike those found in totalitarian societies.
		Taagepera, an American-Estonian political scientist, had warned Res Publica against swaying too far toward the right on several occasions.
	www.baltictimes.com /news/articles/13512 (589 words)

	Xerox in Lithuania (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In Lithuania the number of newspapers and periodicals went from 76 to 27 (Misiunas and Taagepera 1983).
		This might seem analogous to trends in American publishing, where the number of newspapers now is only a fraction of it was fifty years ago, and where media moguls such as Rupert Murdoch have concentrated the power of the media into a rather small number of corporations.
		First, the Soviet state had a complete monopoly on publishing as well as on radio and television within the USSR (and some Western leftists have called such monopolies "state capitalism").
	people.cohums.ohio-state.edu /odlin1/courses/571/xerox.htm (539 words)

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		While the index of volatility is based on the scores of party’s electoral performance from one election to another, the index of disproportionality compares the parties’ vote shares to their seat shears to reflect the proportionality of the electoral system — the equation used is in fact the same.
		This is not to say that the volatility has been low, but it clearly needs to be emphasized that the high arithmetic average is partially due to the occurrence of a few ultra-volatile elections.
		At the same time, it has been argued that when negative values of an indicator are impossible, skewing to the right is to be expected on the linear scale and it is rather its distribution on the logarithmic scale that should approximate normal distribution (Taagepera 1999).
	lepo.it.da.ut.ee /~allans/ma/ma.doc (12162 words)

	Faculty Profile for Rein Taagepera
		Professor Taagepera is interested in quantitative approaches to politics and history as well as in Baltic and Finno-Ugric area studies.
		He has constructed logical quantitative models for arms races, increase in world population, and growth of historical empires.
		Professor Taagepera's current work deals with electoral systems throughout the world -- specifically, the way in which votes are translated into seats by different electoral rules, and the consequences for government stability and the number of parties.
	www.faculty.uci.edu /profile.cfm?faculty_id=2570 (260 words)

	Riigikogu Toimetised RiTo 2/2000
		Rein Taagepera, born 1933 finished the French lyceum in Marrakech and an English school in Canada, MA and DSc in physics (1961, 1965) University of Toronto; MA in international relations 1969, University of Delaware, USA.
		Taagepera by stating that a high level of democracy and parliamentary culture is based upon the general political awareness and traditions of the whole nation.
		The reasons for political degradation and of the diminishing of the role of democratic institutions in several countries (for example, USA) are determined by mixing up political and non-political spheres (the US president is envisioned, for instance, as a role model, not as just a top bureaucrat, who he actually is).
	www.riigikogu.ee /rva/toimetised/rito2/artiklid/50summary.htm (9659 words)

	Political Science 575 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Please purchase a copy of Rein Taagepera and Matthew Soberg Shugart, Seats and Votes: The Effects and Determinants of Electoral Systems (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989).
		Rein Taagepera and Matthew Soberg Shugart, Seats and Votes: The Effects and Determinants of Electoral Systems (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989), pp.
		Rein Taagepera, "How Electoral Systems Matter for Democratization," Democratization 5-3 (Autumn 1998), pp.
	polisci.niu.edu /courses/fa03courses/575.html (2951 words)

	Rein - The Guitars of Thomas Rein (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
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		Rein Peterson BEng (McGill); MBA (UWO); PhD (Cornell); PEng (Life Member, NS) Professor Emeritus of Entrepreneuship and Family Enterprise
	infoant.com /?q=rein (179 words)

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		The electoral systems are approached as an example of the scientific study of politics: Interaction between operationalization, measurement and models.
		Rein Taagepera and Matthew Shugart, Seats and Votes (1989), paper.
		Taagepera and Shugart, chs 1-8: Why study electoral systems
	www.democ.uci.edu /education/courses/taagsyl2.htm (158 words)

	Etnofutu 4
		The reason why I will also speak about cosmofuturism, is that in developing ethnofuturism it is necessary to place it into a larger context.
		His terms were (1) ethnopreterism, a nostalgic effort to preserve the ethnic cultures as pure as they traditionally have been, (2) cosmofuturism as a point of view, which pays no attention to national and ethnic problems and (3) ethnofuturism as something staying between both of them.
		I accept Taagepera's terminological division, but I want to emphasize other aspects in cosmofuturism.
	www.suri.ee /etnofutu/4/cosmo-en.html (3676 words)

	Estonia: Return To Independence; Author: Taagepera, Rein; Introduction: Taagepera, Rein; Paperback
		Not until 1991 was Estonia able to make its nextsuccessful bid for sovereignty.
		Lightning Print On Demand TitleIn this book, the author explores the remarkable changes in Estonia since 1980 - including its successful bid for sovereignty in 1991 - and frames his picture within the larger picture of the Soviet Union and its demise.
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	www.netstoreusa.com /cubooks/081/0813317037.shtml (260 words)

	AABS - Thematic Index of Articles
		Taagepera Rein "Baltic Studies in the West and Soviet Attitudes Toward them" Newsletter X (1) March 1986, 1-6
		Taagepera Rein "The Life and Death of the Interdisciplinary School of Social Sciences at Tartu University" BSN XX (3) September 1996, 8-10
		Taagepera Rein "Is the USA a Model for Europe" BSN XXIII (1) March 1999, 1-8
	www.balticstudies-aabs.lanet.lv /main/0403-Thematic_Index_of_Articles.html (8323 words)

	ESTONIA by TAAGEPERA, REIN (PROFESSOR OF SOCIAL SCIENCE, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-IRVINE, USA) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		ESTONIA by TAAGEPERA, REIN (PROFESSOR OF SOCIAL SCIENCE, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-IRVINE, USA)
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		TAAGEPERA, REIN (PROFESSOR OF SOCIAL SCIENCE, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-IRVINE, USA)
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	Estonia: Return to Independence [Westview _ Series on the Post-Soviet Republics] - Rein Taagepera - Low prices (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
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	books.lowcost.us.com /item_30383133333137303337/Estonia_Return_to.php (504 words)

	The purifying bridge of Res Publica
		Four years ago I would have told anyone who cared to listen that Estonia had too many parties.
		In a study by Grofman, Mikkel and Taagepera (2000), we also noted that no major new player had entered the field since 1995.
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	www.baltictimes.com /news/articles/10464 (98 words)

	UCSD - The Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Rein Taagepera and Matthew Soberg Shugart, Seats and Votes: The Effects and Determinants of Electoral Systems, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989.
		"Majority Versus Plurality Election of Presidents: A Proposal for a 'Double Complement Rule'," with Rein Taagepera, Comparative Political Studies 27 3 (October, 1994): 323-48.
		"Predicting the Number of Parties: A Quantitative Model of Duverger's Mechanical Effect," with Rein Taagepera, American Political Science Review 87, 2 (June, 1993): 455-64.
	www-irps.ucsd.edu /~irps/academics/f-shugart-cv.php (1546 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Baltic States: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		by Romuald J. Misiunas (Author), Rein Taagepera (Author)
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		Rein Taagepera is Professor of Social and Political Science at the University of California, Irvine, and Dean of the School of Social Sciences at Tartu University in Estonia.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/1850651426 (194 words)

	Amazon.ca: Editorial Reviews Books: Softening Without Liberalization in the Soviet Union: The Case of Juri Kukk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The author hypothesizes that Kukk's story illustrates how the Soviet regime has lately become dangerously erratic by becoming more hesitant in its acts without becoming more liberal in its outlook.
		Rein Taagepera is Professor of Social Science and Chair of the Program in Politics and Society at the University of California in Irvine.
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	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/books/0819138002/reviews (131 words)

	Learning Note: Ignorance-based Quantitative Models and their Practical Implications -- Taagepera 11 (3): 421 -- Journal ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Learning Note: Ignorance-based Quantitative Models and their Practical Implications -- Taagepera 11 (3): 421 -- Journal of Theoretical Politics
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	jtp.sagepub.com /cgi/content/abstract/11/3/421 (216 words)

	Nordic Contacts 1991-1998
		The role of the Nordic countries in the Baltic states' path to independence and security can not be underestimated.
		Rein Taagepera, in his book Estonia: Return to Independence, ends with the observation that much of Estonia's ability to survive as an independent state will rest on Scandinavia: "Will the Nordic countries recognize Estonia and Latvia as natural parts of the culturally Lutheran realm?
		Will they be willing to play a role faintly similar to that of West Germany toward East Germany, establishing a special relationship?
	depts.washington.edu /baltic/papers/nordic.html (3353 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Corrected exam papers can be picked up from my secretary starting the following Tuesday.
		Taagepera and Shugart, ch 9-12: Political issue dimensions
		Jones--what does he add to Shugart and Carey
	www.democ.uci.edu /education/courses/taagsyl.htm (213 words)

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		Taagepera, Rein; "The Effect of District Magnitude and Properties of Two-Seat Districts"; Choosing an Electoral System; edited by Arend Lijphart and Bernard Grofman; New York; Praeger; 1984; 91-101; #1592.
		Taagepera, Rein; "Reformulating the Cube Law for Proportional Representation Elections"; American Political Science Review; Vol.
		Shugart, Matthew Soberg; "Predicting the Number of Parties: A Quantitative Model of Duverger's Mechanical Effect"; American Political Science Review; Vol.
	www.maxwell.syr.edu /maxpages/faculty/jskelly/T.htm (4274 words)

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