In order to achieve this goal, first all publications of Rokkan's publications were collected and made machine-readable by scanning them (building what is today the Stein Rokkan-archive), with the intention to produce a summarizing book (State Formation, Nation-Building, and Mass Politics in Europe: The Theory of Stein Rokkan.
Hierzu wurden zunächst alle Publikationen Rokkans gesammelt und eingescannt (heute das Stein Rokkan-Archiv), um daraus ein zusammenfassendes Buch zu erstellen (State Formation, Nation-Building, and Mass Politics in Europe: The Theory of Stein Rokkan.