State Formation, Nation-Building, and Mass Politics in Europe

Stein Rokkan was regarded as one of the leading social scientists of the post-war world. He was a writer whose main contribution to social science - the conceptual and developmental map of Europe - is presented here in an integrated and systematic way.
Stein Rokkan was one of the leading social scientists 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. Stein Rokkan had plans to do this but died before the work could be started. Drawing on Rokkan's published, unpublished, and translated writings, this book systematizes and integrates Rokkan's numerous writings in the way he wanted to do himself. This book is intended for scholars and students of political sociology, comparative government/politics, party systems, elections, political participation, European politics, European studies.