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Apart from the quantitative study of electoral and party systems, Taagepera has also published several studies of
Estonian and Baltic history, politics, and culture. These latter, on the other hand, are more personal and take strong normative positions. Taagepera has also written award-winning pieces
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until April 2005. Taagepera tried to hold the party more or less in the middle of the spectrum (Taagepera even suggested he was centre-left politician). In 2005, Taagepera resigned his Res
Publica membership, frustrated with the party's leadership style and move to the right (refer to his essay,
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of his previous field, physics. The quantitative approach is also his general attitude towards political science as a scholarly discipline. He recently systematized numerous contributions in electoral systems theory into a general, quantitative theoretical framework, exposed in the volume
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Taagepera, Rein (1976) Crisis around 2005 A.D.? A technology-population interaction model. General
Systems 21, 137-138; Taagepera, Rein (1979) People, skills, and resources: An interaction model for world population growth. Technological Forecasting and Social Change 13,
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in Canada and the United States. He received a B.A. Sc (Nuclear
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in 1965. Working in industry until 1970, he received another M.A. in
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in 1969 and moved to academia as a political scientist at the
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from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially
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Predicting Party Sizes: The Logic of Simple Electoral Systems
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