State Formation, Parties and Democracy

This ECPR classic assembles some of Hans Daalder’s most important papers and provides an overview of the work of one of the leading figures of European comparative politics. As Peter Mair observes in his preface to this volume, Hans Daalder represents a generation of comparative political scientists whose work is characterized by a particular style and academic culture, who addressed big questions, had enormous historical knowledge and produced some of the more idiosyncratic, lengthy, explanatory and sometimes speculative writing that is characteristic of papers in this volume. -- Hanspeter Kriesi, 'Party Politics'

Hans Daalder is Professor Emeritus at the University of Leiden. He is one of the founders of the European Consortium of Political Research, of which he was President from 1976 to 1979. Recently he edited Comparative European Politics: The Story of a Profession (1997; new paperback edition 1999).