Heinrich Best / Maurizio Cotta (eds.)

Parliamentary Representatives in Europe 1848-2000

Legislative Recruitment and Careers in Eleven European Countries
Herausgeber: Best, Heinrich; Cotta, Maurizio

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Further, by placing the representative at the centre, two fundamental and to some extent contradictory processes underlying the development towards parliamentary democracy in Europe, namely democratisation and political professionalisation, are addressed. The book concludes with a synopsis which proposes a developmental model of parliamentary representation in Europe during the last 150 years.

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This book brings together leading scholars in the field of electoral studies and political representation to examine the democratization of the recruitment of political representatives in Western Europe. The study deals with long-term changes in parliamentary recruitment and patterns of political careers in eleven European countries from the middle of the 19th century until 2000. The book provides the first ever truly comparative study of parliamentary representation in Europe.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 564
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Dezember 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 165mm x 40mm
• Gewicht: 930g
• ISBN-13: 9780198297932
• ISBN-10: 0198297939
• Artikelnr.: 22279660

Autorenporträt

Heinrich Best is Professor, Institute for Sociology, Fredrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany Maurizio Cotta is Professor of Sociology, University of Sienna

Inhaltsangabe

* Elite Transformation and Modes of Representation since the
Mid-Nineteenth Century: Some Theoretical Considerations
* The Incremental Transformation of the Danish Legislative Elite: The
Party System as Prime Mover
* Professional and Expert Representation: Recruitment of the
Parliamentary Elite in Finland since 1863
* Detours to Modernity: Long Term Trends of Parliamentary Recruitment
in Republican France 1848-1999
* Challenges, Failures and Final Success: The Winding Path of German
Parliamentary Leadership Groups toward a Structurally Integrated
Elite 1848-1999
* Belated Professionalisation of Parliamentary Elites: Hungary
1848-1997
* Parliamentary Elite Transformations along the Discontinuous Road of
Democratisation: Italy 1861-1999
* Representatives of the Dutch People: The Smooth Transformation of the
Parliamentary Elite in a Consociational Democracy
* Democratisation and Parliamentary Elite Recruitment in Norway
1848-1996
* Political Recruitment and Elite Transformation in Modern Portugal
1870-1999: The Late Arrival of Mass Representation
* Spanish Diputados: From the 1876 Restoration to Consolidated
Democracy
* Continuity and Change: Legislative Recruitment in the United Kingdom
1868-1999
* Between Professionalisation and Democratisation: A Synoptic View on
the Making of the European Representative