State formation, parties and democracy. Studies in comparative European politics(2011)–Hans Daalder– Auteursrechtelijk beschermd Inhoudsopgave | list of figures and tables | acknowledgements preface - by Peter Mair chapter one | introduction - my life in comparative politics I. Comparative European politics: state formation and modernization chapter two | countries in comparative european politics chapter three | paths towards state formation in europe: democratization, bureaucratization, and politicization chapter four | european political traditions and processes of modernization: groups, the individual and the state II. Political parties chapter five | parties, elites, and political developments in western europe chapter six | cabinets and party systems in ten smaller european democracies chapter seven | parties and political mobilization: an initial mapping chapter eight | in search of the center of european party systems chapter nine | parties: denied, dismissed or redundant? a critique III. The consociational model chapter ten | on building consociational nations: the cases of the netherlands and switzerland chapter eleven | the consociational democracy theme chapter twelve | ancient pluralism and modern democracy in the netherlands: The 1989 Erasmus Lectures at Harvard University chapter thirteen | looking back: the development of the study of comparative politics | appendix | index