Historical Sociology and Eastern European Development: A Rokkanian Approach

by Arne Kommisrud

Overview

An innovator in theoretical approaches in the social sciences, Stein Rokkan developed general models, developmental models, and conceptual maps that specified the main variables and important relationships in European political history. In Historical Sociology, Arne Kommisrud tests these general hypotheses against specific historical and regional contexts. He uses the case of Eastern Europe after the downfall of the Berlin Wall to extend the geography of the model's range, and introduces possibilities for theoretical modification through an analysis of sequential interactions.

Covering a period from the Middle Ages through the 1990s, and addressing phenomena overlooked by Rokkan such as statebuilding and nationalism, this book demonstrates that Rokkan's models continue to be relevant to modern political science and sociology. Kommisrud's study is a valuable contribution to Rokkanian approaches and the understanding of Eastern European development within the historical and geographic context of Europe as a whole.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780739128718
Publisher:	Lexington Books
Publication date:	05/16/2009
Pages:	198
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Arne Kommisrud is associate professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Tromso.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Stein Rokkan's European Macro Model and the Historical-Sociological Tradition
2 State Building, Nationalities, and Conflict Dynamics in the Soviet and Hapsburg Empires
3 Eas European Development in the Light of Stein rokkan's European Macro Model
4 Some Concluding Remarks

Editorial Reviews

Historical Sociology is full of revealing insights, well-selected comparisons, and also adequate criticism of our old and new classics in this field. It furthermore has a fascinating topic: the analysis of Eastern Europe using some elements of Rokkan's model of European development.

Peter Flora

Overall, an instructive book. Essential.

Choice Reviews

Overall, an instructive book. Essential.

March 2010 Choice Reviews

Overall, an instructive book. Essential.

Choice

Historical Sociology is full of revealing insights, well-selected comparisons, and also adequate criticism of our old and new classics in this field. It furthermore has a fascinating topic: the analysis of Eastern Europe using some elements of Rokkan's model of European development.--Peter Flora, professor of sociology, Universität Mannheim

Overall, an instructive book. Essential.--CHOICE, March 2010

From the Publisher

Overall, an instructive book. Essential.

March 2010 CHOICE