Citizens, elections, parties : approaches to the comparative study of the processes of development
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Citizens, elections, parties : approaches to the comparative study of the processes of development
（ECPR classics / series editors, Alan Ware and Vincent Hoffmann-Martinot）
ECPR Press, 2009
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"First published in 1970 by Universitetsforlaget, Oslo"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references (p. [432]-464) and index
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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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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
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