Stein Rokkan was one of the leading social scientist of the post-war world. He was a prolific writer, yet nowhere is his contribution to social science--the conceptual and developmental map of Europe--presented in an integrated and systematic way. Drawing on Rokkan's published, unpublished and translated writings, this book systematizes and integrates Rokkan's numerous writings in the way he himself planned to do.

Stein Rokkan became one of the central figures of European comparative politics and political sociology in the post-war decades. Citizens, Elections, Parties remains the most complete guide to Rokkan's work up to 1970, and it is for this that Rokkan is most widely known today. The core question at the heart of this seminal work is what explains the political behaviour of citizens. The book brings together a series of studies, some conceptual and theoretical, others empirical and statistical, of processes of political development in industrialising and industrialised societies. The fourteen...

Der Integrationsprozess im Westen, der Zusammenbruch des Kommunismus und der neue Nationalismus im Osten Europas haben einer historisch vergleichenden Makrosoziologie und der Analyse langfristiger Entwicklungen hchste Aktualitt verliehen. Das bislang in Deutschland weitgehend unbekannte Gesamtwerk Stein Rokkans ist hier von herausragender Bedeutung. Im Mittelpunkt steht der Versuch, ein Makromodell der politischen Entwicklung Europas zu entwerfen. Das Ziel ist, die Vielgestaltigkeit Europas aus den unterschiedlichen historischen Prozessen der Nationenbildung und der Demokratisierung zu...