Citizens, elections, parties : approaches to the comparative study of the processes of development

Introduction to ECPR Edition x Preface 5 I. Nation-building, citizenship and political mobilization: approaches and models. 11 1. The Comparative Study of Political Participation 13 2. Methods and Models in the Comparative Study of Nation Building 46 3. Nation-Building, Cleavage Formation and the Structuring of Mass Politics 72 II. Suffrage extensions and waves of mobilization: empirical and statistical studies. 145 4. Electoral Systems 147 5. The Comparative Study of Electoral Statistics 169 6. The Mobilization of the Periphery 181 7. Electoral Mobilization, Party Competition and National Integration 226 III. Citizen reactions in fully-fl edged party systems. 249 8. Cross-National Survey Analysis: Historical,…