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 Drawing on Rokkan's published, unpublished and translated writings, this book systematizes and integrates Rokkan's numerous writings in the way he himself planned to do.

• 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