Background
Stein Rokkan was born on the Lofoten archipelago in the far north of Norway and raised in the nearby town of Narvik.
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Stein Rokkan was a prolific writer and scholar who became a central figure in European comparative politics and political sociology in the decades following World War II. Citizens, Elections, and Parties is the most complete guide to Rokkan's work up to 1970. The volume explains citizens' political behavior by bringing together fourteen studies, some conceptual and theoretical, others empirical and statistical, concerning the process of political development within industrializing and industrialized societies. They focus on three central themes: the extension of citizenship to the underprivileged strata of each territorial population; the mobilization of the new masses through the institutionalization of elections and the formation of parties and popular movements; and the reactions of the mobilized masses to alternatives presented by the inherited national regime, the parties, and new communication. Rokkan's analysis of the structural underpinnings of citizen behavior remains innovative and highly ambitious today, with many of its provocative questions still unanswered.
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Stein Rokkan was born on the Lofoten archipelago in the far north of Norway and raised in the nearby town of Narvik.
He was a professor in comparative politics at the University of Bergen. Originally educated as a philosopher, Rokkan collaborated in the 1940s and 1950s as the assistant of Arne Næss. He is also known as a pioneer user of computer technology in the social sciences.
Rokkan is the creator of a series of models for state and nation formations in Europe.
The Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research has been awarded by the ISSC, the ECPR and the University of Bergen since 1981. The University of Bergen has a Stein Rokkan Centre for Social Studies and a Stein Rokkan Building at street address Nygårdsgaten 5.
He was president of the International Political Science Association from 1970 to 1973, president of the International Social Science Council (ISSC), which was founded by United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, from 1973 to 1977, vice-president of the International Sociological Association from 1966 to 1970, and chairman (from 1970 to 1976) and co-founder of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR).
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Later on, his interest turned towards the study of politics, especially the formation of political parties and European nation-states. lieutenant was during this period that he collaborated with Seymour Martin Lipset, "Lipset and Rokkan" becoming a duo that would forever be remembered by students of political sociology. He wrote on cleavage, comparative history, party systems and Catalan nationalism, among other topics.
