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Zusatztext `A wonderful book about the thinking of the greatest modern European social scientist.'Professor Arend Lijphart, University of California, San Diego Klappentext 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 Drawing on Rokkan's published, unpublished and translated writings, this book systematizes and integrates Rokkan's numerous writings in the way he himself planned to do. Vorwort The first single-volume collection of Stein Rokkan's key works Zusammenfassung 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 Drawing on Rokkan's published, unpublished, and translated writings, this book systematizes and integrates Rokkan's numerous writings in the way he wanted to do himself. Inhaltsverzeichnis State Formation and Nation-Building Basic Concepts, Models, Maps Differentiations and Boundary-Building Centres and Peripheries The Basic Model A Model and Conceptual Map of Europe The Territorial Structuring of Europe Conditions of State Formation and nation Building Nation-Building and language The Survival of Peripheral Identity federal Versus Unitary Structure B. Mass Politics III. The Democratisation of Europe 1. Exit and Voice 2. The Four Thresholds of Democratisation 3. Numerical Democracy and Corporate Pluralism IV Cleavage Structures and party Systems Cleavages and Their Political Translations Critical Junctures, Alliances, and Oppositions 3. Party Systems and the Model of Europe ...
