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978-0-9552488-8-7 • Paperback • October 2009 • $58.00 • (£36.00)
Stein Rokkan was born in 1921 on the Lofoten archipelago in the far north of Norway and raised in the nearby town of Narvik. From these unlikely beginnings, he went on to become president of the International Political Science Association (1970–73), vice-president of the International Sociological Association (1966–70) and chairman of the European Consortium for Political Research (1970–76), of which he was also a co-founder. He was president of the International Social Science Council associated with UNESCO (1973–77) and chairman of Nordisk Forbund for Statskundskab (1975–76). Seymour Martin Lipset described him shortly after his death in 1979 as 'the pre-eminent political sociologist' of his generation. He remains widely cited in diverse literature today.
Contents
Introduction to ECPR Edition x
Preface 5
I. Nation-building, citizenship and political mobilization:
approaches and models. 11
1. The Comparative Study of Political Participation 13
2. Methods and Models in the Comparative Study
of Nation Building 46
3. Nation-Building, Cleavage Formation and the
Structuring of Mass Politics 72
II. Suffrage extensions and waves of mobilization:
empirical and statistical studies. 145
4. Electoral Systems 147
5. The Comparative Study of Electoral Statistics 169
6. The Mobilization of the Periphery 181
7. Electoral Mobilization, Party Competition and
National Integration 226
III. Citizen reactions in fully-fl edged party systems. 249
8. Cross-National Survey Analysis: Historical,
Analytical and Substantive Contexts 251
9. Party Preferences and Opinion Patterns in
Western Europe 293
10. Ideological Consistency and Party Preference:
Findings of a Seven-Country Survey 334
11. Electoral Activity, Party Membership and
Organizational Infl uence 352
12. Citizen Participation in Political Life:
a Comparison of Data for Norway and
the United States 362
13. The Voter, the Reader and the Party Press 397
14. Readers, Viewers, Voters 417
Bibliography 432
Index 464