Rein Taagepera

Politician

Birthday February 28, 1933

Birth Sign Pisces

Birthplace Estonia

Age 91 years old

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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.