Rein Taagepera

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Rein Taagepera
Taagepera in 2009
Born	(1933-02-28) February 28, 1933 (age 91) Tartu, Estonia
Education	Nuclear Engineering, University of Toronto (B.A. Sc, 1959) Physics, University of Delaware (Ph.D., 1965)
Awards	Tuglas Prize (1990) Constantine Panunzio Distinguished Emeriti Award (2013-14)
Chairman, Res Publica Party
Preceded by	None (founding chairman)
President, Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies

Rein Taagepera (born 28 February 1933)^[1] is an Estonian political scientist and former politician.

Education

Born in

Taagepera served as president of the Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies from 1986 until 1988. In 1991, he returned to Estonia as the founding dean of a new School of Social Sciences at the University of Tartu, which merged into a full-fledged faculty in 1994, and where he also became professor of political science (1994–1998).

In 1991, he was a member of the

Taagepera's original epistemological and methodological approach, defined as logical quantitative modeling, is systematically presented in the recent volume Making Social Sciences More Scientific. The Need for Predictive Models (2008). Of special interest is his research in the World System hyperbolic growth.^[4]

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 of prose (most notably

Key publications

• Size and Duration of Empires: Systematics of Size, 1978
  ISSN 0049-089X
• Size and Duration of Empires: Growth-Decline Curves, 3000 to 600 B.C., 1978
  ISSN 0049-089X
• Size and Duration of Empires: Growth-Decline Curves, 600 B.C. to 600 A.D., 1979
  JSTOR 1170959
• Seats and Votes: The Effects and Determinants of Electoral Systems, 1989, co-author
• Estonia: Return to independence, 1993
• The Baltic States: Years of Dependence, 1940-1990, 2nd edn. 1993, co-author
  ISBN 0-520-08228-1
• Expansion and Contraction Patterns of Large Polities: Context for Russia, 1997
  JSTOR 2600793
• The Finno-Ugric republics and the Russian state, 1999
• "Meteoric trajectory: The Res Publica Party in Estonia" (2006), Democratization 13(1): 78-94. the original conference paper as pdf file This essay gives a moderately candid account of Taagepera's Res Publica chairmanship and his evaluation of the party and its rise and fall.
• Predicting Party Sizes: The Logic of Simple Electoral Systems, 2007
  ISBN 0-19-928774-0
• Making Social Sciences More Scientific. The Need for Predictive Models, 2008
  ISBN 0-19-953466-7
• Parsimonious model for predicting mean cabinet duration on the basis of electoral system (with Allan Sikk), Party Politics, 2010.

Taagepera received the American Political Science Association's Hallett (1999) and Longley (2003) Awards as well as the Estonian National Science Prize, Social Science Category (1999), the Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science (2008), and the Karl Deutsch Award (2016).

References

External links

• Rein Taagepera's profile in the University of California - Irvine website