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Stein Rokkan  

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  • Stein Rokkan (1921–1979), professor of comparative politics at the University of Bergen, Norway, was one of the world's leading social scientists. His life work produced a gigantic “historical fresco” of political development in Europe universally acknowledged as being fundamental to the study of the formation of nation-states and the birth of democracy. [Source: The Encyclopedia of Political Science; Rokkan, Stein]

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