Title: Citizens, elections, parties : approaches to the comparative study of the processes of development /
Authors: Rokkan, Stein.
Publisher: ECPR Press,
Year: 2009
Subjects: Comparative government.; Elections.; Political parties.; Political psychology.
Contents: Part 1. Nation-building, citizenship and political mobilization : approaches and models. The comparative study of political participation ; Methods and models in the comparative study of nation building ; Nation-building, cleavage formation and the structuring of mass politics -- Part 2. Suffrage extensions and waves of mobilization : empirical and statistical studies. Electoral systems ; The comparative study of electoral statistics ; The mobilization of the periphery ; Electoral mobilization, party competition and national integration -- Part 3. Citizen reactions in fully-fledged party systems. Cross-national survey analysis : historical, analytical and substantive contexts ; Party preferences and opinion patterns in Western Europe ; Ideological consistency and party preference : findings of a seven-country survey ; Electoral activity, party membership and organizational influence ; Citizen participation in political life : a comparison of data for Norway and the United States ; The voter, the reader and the party press ; Readers, viewers, voters.