Maurice Duverger (born June 5, 1917) is a French jurist.

He was born in Angoulême, France. He 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)
• Factors in a Two-Party and Multiparty System, in Party Politics and Pressure Groups (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1972), pp. 23-32.

External link

• Yahoo! France biography (in French)