Parliamentary Representatives in Europe 1848-2000

Legislative Recruitment and Careers in Eleven European Countries
Erscheinungsjahr 2000
ISBN: 978-0-19-829793-2
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 564 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 1004 g

Parliamentary Representatives in Europe 1848-2000 deals with long-term changes in parliamentary recruitment and patterns of political careers in eleven European countries (Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain and the United Kingdom) from the middle of the 19th century to the end of the millennium. Through individual country chapters, written by international experts native to each area, the book focuses on transformations in the social background, education, political career paths, and entrenchment in pressure groups and party offices of those who sat in national parliaments. These transformations are traced on the basis of a comprehensive and integrated data-set (the DATACUBE) providing, for the first time, the prerequisites for a truly comparative study of parliamentary representation in Europe. In addition, information about institutional settings, the development of party systems, and the political events and processes of social change that helped to shape the recruitment and career paths of members of parliament, is given for each country. 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Best, Heinrich

Cotta, Maurizio

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Methodenlehre
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Zentralregierung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Demokratie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 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

Über Autor(innen)

Heinrich Best is Professor, Institute for Sociology, Fredrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany

Maurizio Cotta is Professor of Sociology, University of Sienna