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Stein Rokkan

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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.

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