State Formation, Parties and Democracy: Studies in Comparative European Politics [Paperback]

The book throws a unique light on the development of comparative studies after World War II as seen through the eyes of an active participant.This volume re-publishes classical studies by Hans Daalder on three major themes: the different paths towards state formation in Europe; their effect on parties and party systems and their alleged crises; and the rise and merits of the consociational democracy model. The book throws a unique light on the development of comparative studies after World War II as seen through the eyes of an active participant. In a fascinating preface Peter Mair contrasts two scholarly generations in the field of comparative and cross-national studies.contentsList of Figures and Tables viAcknowledgments viiPreface  by Peter Mair ixChapter 1: Introduction  My life in Comparative Politics 1I. Comparative European Politics: State Formation and Modernization 15Chapter 2: Countries in Comparative European Politics 17Chapter 3: Paths towards State Formation in Europe: Democratization,Bureaucratization, and Politicization 33Chapter 4: European Political Traditions and Processes of Modernization:Groups, the Individual and the State 49II. Political Parties 69Chapter 5: Parties, Elites, and Political Developments in Western Europe 71Chapter 6: Cabinets and Party Systems in Ten Smaller European Democracies 97Chapter 7: Parties and Political Mobilization: An Initial Mapping 119Chapter 8: In Search of the Center of European Party Systems 145Chapter 9: Parties: Denied, Dismissed or Redundant? A Critique 173III. The Consociational Model 191Chapter 10: On Building Consociational Nations: The Cases of the Netherlandsand Switzerland 193Chapter 11: The Consociational Democracy Theme 207Chapter 12: Ancient Pluralism and Modern Democracy in the Netherlands:The 1989 Erasmus Lectures at Harvard University 223Chapter 13: Looking Back: The Development of the Study of ComparativePolitics 269Appendix (Material Available Electronically) 287Index 289Hans Daalder was Profesl£,