Maurice Duverger (1917 - 2014) was a French political scientist.
Duverger most famously described
the effects of plurality voting in single winner elections:
it is now a political law that bears his name: Duverger's Law.
The Pilgrimage for Democracy and Social Justice is describing the effects of that law
in the Duverger Syndrome.
Duverger's Law has been discussed since the 1950s,
but the lessons have yet to be learned in the 2020s.
Fixing our electoral system by adopting a better voting method
is probably the most critical issue for our democracies.
Why does every democracy with single-choice voting end up with two dominant parties or camps?
Duverger's Law answers this question — and the answer runs deeper than most electoral reformers acknowledge.
The Duverger Syndrome is democracies' most critical illness.
Both the causes and the fixes are known.
Solutions must be applied as a matter of priority.
Maurice Duverger was a French jurist, sociologist, political scientist and politician born in Angoulême, Charente.
Starting his career as a jurist at the University of Bordeaux, Duverger became more and more involved in political science
and in 1948 founded one of the first faculties for political science in Bordeaux, France.
An emeritus professor of the Sorbonne and member of the FNSP,
he has published many books and articles in newspapers,
such as Corriere della Sera, la Repubblica, El País, and especially Le Monde.