Rein Taagepera

About

Estonian politician and political scientist who was a member of the Estonian Constitutional Assembly in 1991. He has done important scholarly work on electoral systems.

Before Fame

He was President of the Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies from 1986 to 1988.

Trivia

He published his first major work, Seats and Votes: The Effects and Determinants of Electoral Systems, in 1989.

Family Life

He fled Soviet-occupied Estonia with his family in 1944.

Associated With

He was active in Estonia during the same period as fellow politician Peeter Lepp.