Stein Rokkan was a Norwegian political scientist and sociologist, born in 1921. He was the first professor of sociology at the University of Bergen and a principal founder of the discipline of comparative politics, and he founded the multidisciplinary Department of Sociology at the University of Bergen, encompassing sociology, economics and political science, which played a key role in the postwar development of the social sciences in Norway. He died in 1979. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Defining Contributionintroduced critical juncture theory 1 Notable WorkCleavage Structures, Party Systems, and Voter Alignments 1 Connections
Associated With
Rokkan mapped the historical cleavages, center-periphery tensions and nation-building processes that shaped the modern European state system.
In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: Norway, nationality there.
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1. Stein Rokkan (Wikipedia)
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Stein Rokkan was a Norwegian political scientist and sociologist.
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1921-07-04
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1921-07-04
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1979-07-22
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1979-07-22
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Vågan, Norway
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Bergen, Norway
Cleavage Structures section, title
Cleavage Structures, Party Systems, and Voter Alignments
Cleavage Structures section, critical juncture sentence
introduced critical juncture theory
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