State formation, parties and democracy. Studies in comparative European politics

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This appendix, which can be downloaded from the website of the ECPR Press (www.ecprnet.eu/ecprpress/daalder), contains three discussion papers on the development of political science in Europe in the last thirty years, and three working documents for a comparative study of the smaller European democracies as elaborated by leading scholars in the 1960s.

Appendix 1 is an address given at the Joint Sessions of the ECPR in 1979 when I laid down the Chairmanship, as the second ECPR Chairman after Stein Rokkan (1970-1976). It contains an assessment of the state and potential of political science in Europe at that time. I looked back at that statement thirty years later at the Round Table organized at the 40th anniversary Joint Sessions in Münster in April 2010, see Hans Daalder ‘Political Science in Europe and the ECPR: Looking Back and Looking On,’ in European Political Science 9 (2010) Supplement 1, S30-S37.

Appendix 2 contains the text of a paper presented at the Second Colloquium on European-American Relations, organized by Samuel P. Huntington in Talloires, France from 6-10 September 1987. It analyzes key problems facing European countries at that time which are still high on the agenda after almost a quarter of a century later.

Appendix 3 faces the issue whether one can speak of ‘A European Political Science’, in an unpublished paper presented during a symposium on 18-19 September 1997 held to honour Stefano Bartolini at the end of his appointment as Professor of Political Science at the European University Institute, Florence, Italy.

Appendix 4 contains three basic documents on a research project for a comparative study of Smaller European Democracies in the 1960s, proposed first by Hans Daalder and Val R. Lorwin, who were later joined as editors by Stein Rokkan and Robert A. Dahl. They show an increasingly ambitious research scheme elaborated by a larger group of European political scientists (see details in the Introduction of this volume). Their value is not in its implementation, but as an illustration of how an international group of scholars saw the requirements of serious country studies in a comparative perspective half a century ago.

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Electronic appendixes

Appendix 1

‘The Internationalisation of Political Science: Promises and Problems’,

This essay appeared in Dennis A. Kavanagh and Gilian Peele (eds.), Comparative Government and Politics: Essays in Honour of S.E. Finer, London, Heinemann, 1984, pp. 160-169.

Appendix 2

‘Perspectives on Domestic Developments in European Politics: A Discussion Paper’

This unpublished paper was prepared for the Second Colloquium on European-American Relations (organizer: Samuel P. Huntington, Harvard University), held at the European Center of Tufts University, Talloires, France, 6-10 September 1987.

Appendix 3

‘A European Political Science: how could it be?’

This unpublished paper was prepared for the Symposium ‘Is there a European Social Science?’ European University Institute, Florence, 18-19 April 1997.

Appendix 4

The Politics of The Smaller European Democracies. An International Research Project (SED)

Three documents:

I. ‘A Proposal for a Research Project on the Smaller Democracies in Europe’

Prepared by Hans Daalder (Institute of Social Studies, The Hague) and Val R. Lorwin (University of Oregon) - June 1961.

II. ‘The Politics of the Smaller European Democracies - Common Core Elements’

This outline contains the ‘common core’ elements to be treated in individual country studies agreed at by participants in the SED-project during the 1964 September Conference at Bellagio Italy (Contributors to this outline were: Hans Daalder, Leiden University; Robert A. Dahl, Yale University; Val R. Lorwin, University of Oregon; Stein Rokkan, Christian Michelsen Institute, Bergen, Norway) - October 1964.

III. ‘The Politics of the Smaller European Democracies - List of Priorities’

This list of priorities and optional tables for country volumes was drawn up by Stein Rokkan, of the Christian Michelsen Institute, Bergen, Norway - March 1965.