Matthew Søberg Shugart

Matthew Søberg Shugart is an orchardist and professor of political science at the University of California, San Diego. Shugart is an expert on the subjects of electoral systems and constitutional design, particularly with regard to the nations of Latin America. He is also known for his voting systems blog, Fruits and Votes. Shugart developed the Shugart number, the observation that the number of members of the lower house tends towards the cube root of population.

External links

• Profile at the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies (IR/PS)
• Faculty homepage

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Name	Shugart, Matthew Soberg
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