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Originally educated as a philosopher, Rokkan collaborated in the 1940s and 1950s with Arne Næss as his research assistant. Later on, his interest turned towards the study of politics, especially the formation of political parties and European nation-states. It 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 is also known as a pioneer user of computer technology in the social sciences. The philosopher Socrates about to take poison hemlock as ordered by the court. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... This does not cite any references or sources. ... Arne Dekke Eide Næss (born January 27, 1912) is widely regarded as the foremost Norwegian philosopher of the 20th century[1], and is the founder of deep ecology. ... The Politics series Politics Portal This box:      Politics is the process by which groups of people make decisions. ... World map showing the location of Europe. ... The term nation-state, while often used interchangeably with the terms unitary state and independent state, refers properly to the parallel occurence of a state and a nation. ... Seymour Martin Lipset (born 1922) is a political sociologist. ... The social sciences are groups of academic disciplines that study the human aspects of the world. ...

Rokkan is the creator of a series of models for state and nation formations in Europe. He was president of the International Political Science Association from 1970 to 1973, president of UNESCO's International Social Science Council (1973-77), 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. An abstract model (or conceptual model) is a theoretical construct that represents something, with a set of variables and a set of logical and quantitative relationships between them. ... A state is a political association with effective dominion over a geographic area. ... One of the most influential doctrines in history is that all humans are divided into groups called nations. ... The International Political Science Association (IPSA) is an international organisation dedicated to the scholarly study of political science. ... UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) is a specialized agency of the United Nations established in 1945. ... The International Social Science Council (ISSC) is an international organisation that aims to promote the social and behavioural sciences. ... International Sociological Association is a non-profit organization dedicated to scientific purposes in the field of sociology and social sciences. ... The European Consortium for Political Research is an association of scholarly institutions supporting the study of political science. ...

He has written on cleavage, comparative history, party systems and Catalan nationalism, among other topics. There are very few or no other articles that link to this one. ... The chronological comparison or commentory between different societies at a given time is called comparative history. ... A party system is a concept in political science concerning the system of government in a state where political parties exist. ... Catalan nationalism, or Catalanism, is a political movement that advocates the political autonomy of Catalonia or the Catalan Countries and in some cases, independence from Spain and France. ...

Selected works

• Party Systems and Voter Alignments. Co-edited with Seymour Martin Lipset (Free Press, 1967)
• Building States and Nations. Co-edited with Shmuel Eisenstadt (Sage, 1973)
• Economy, Territory, Identity: Politics of West European Peripheries. Co-authored with Derek W. Urwin (Sage, 1983)

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Other sources

• State Formation, Nation-Building, and Mass Politics in Europe: The Theory of Stein Rokkan. Edited by Peter Flora (Oxford University Press, 1999)

External links

• Stein Rokkan Centre for Social Studies in Bergen
• Department of comparative politics in Bergen
• Norwegian Social Science Data Archives, co-founded and later led by Rokkan