Stein Rokkan

Citizens, Elections, Parties

Approaches to the Comparative Study of the Processes of Development

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Produktbeschreibung

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 studies presented in the volume focus on three central themes in the comparative sociology of national development: first, the extension of citizenship to hitherto underprivileged strata of each territorial population; second, the mobilisation of the new masses through the institutionalisation of elections and the formation of parties and popular movements; and third, the reactions of the mobilised masses to the alternatives presented to them by the inherited national regime, by the parties, and by the new media of communication. Rokkan's work, as represented in Citizens, Elections, Parties, remains alive today; his analysis of the structural underpinnings of citizen behaviour was innovative and highly ambitious in its day and still remains relevant, with many of the questions he raised still not receiving an adequate answer. This edition includes a new introduction by Alan Renwick.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: ECPR Press
• Seitenzahl: 492
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 680g
• ISBN-13: 9780955248887
• ISBN-10: 0955248884
• Artikelnr.: 24431726

Autorenporträt

By Stein Rokkan

Inhaltsangabe

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