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Political Theories of Stein Rokkan in Current Party Politics : European Integration and Ecology

六甲台論集. 国際協力研究編

11

27-44

神戸大学大学院国際協力研究科

2010-01

2010-06-07

With economic development and information technology advancement, the post-War European society has changed from a historical to temporal society. While the former is based on traditional groupings, the latter is based on individual actors. As a result, the idea of explaining the society from the perspective of history has declined, and at the same time explanations based on individual values and behaviors through the use of quantity data have become more popular approaches. However, against this background, does history really have no meaning in explaining the contemporary society? Are people in today’s society really free from history and social structures? Stein Rokkan is one of the leading scholars of the historical approach. Notably, his political theory on party politics has lost supporters along the above-mentioned academic trend. To evaluate the historical approach, this paper investigates the meaning of his theories in the context of present–day politics by analyzing the European integration and the ecology, both which figure a lot in the discussion of current party politics

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