State Formation, Nation-Building, and Mass Politics in Europe
The Theory of Stein Rokkan
Stein Rokkan author Peter Flora editor Stein Kuhnle editor Derek Urwin editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Published:10th Jun '99
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
The first single-volume collection of Stein Rokkan's key works
Stein Rokkan was one of the leading social scientists of the post-war world. He was a prolific writer whose main contribution to social science - the conceptual and developmental map of Europe - is presented here for the first time 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 Drawing on Rokkan's published, unpublished, and translated writings, this book systematizes and integrates Rokkan's numerous writings in the way he wanted to do himself.
sets the standards in cross-national comparative research to extraordinarily high levels of academic excellence. * Luis Moreno, Nationalism & Ethnic Politics, Vol.6, No.3, Autumn 2000 *
A long introduction written by Peter Flora serves the purpose of providing the reader with useful insights and interpretations on how to make sense of the vast amount of data and information provided in subsequent chapters. A cascade of concepts and ideas put forward by Rokkan are analysed in a clarifying manner. * Luis Moreno, Nationalism & Ethnic Politics, Vol.6, No.3, Autumn 2000 *
A much needed compiliation of Rokkan's prolific work has finally seen the 'public light'. * Luis Moreno, Nationalism & Ethnic Politics, Vol.6, No.3, Autumn 2000 *
`A wonderful book about the thinking of the greatest modern European social scientist.' Professor Arend Lijphart, University of California, San Diego
ISBN: 9780198280323
Dimensions: 224mm x 147mm x 27mm
Weight: 712g
440 pages