Política comparada, Estado y democracia en la teoría de Stein Rokkan

Abstract

Norwegian political scientist Stein Rokkan has been recognized as one of the most important social scientists of the post-war period. However, his intellectual contribution to the consolidation and development of contemporary political science is practically unknown in the Latin-American context. His original and complex “Political Development Theory of Democracy and Pluralism” is based on a series of models for the analysis of nation-states construction and the democratization processes in Western Europe. Although the history of Europe constitutes the focus of his analysis, his work should not be considered a “restrictively European theory” but rather a series of concepts which offer a perspective of analysis for other historical-political experiences such as those in Latin American countries.