Parliamentary Representatives in Europe 1848-2000 Legislative Recruitment and Careers in Eleven European Countries

by Best, Heinrich; Cotta, Maurizio

• ISBN13: 9780198297932
• ISBN10: 0198297939
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-12-14
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

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.

Author Biography

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

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors	xi
Elite Transformation and Modes of Representation since the Mid-Nineteenth Century: Some Theoretical Considerations	1	(28)
Heinrich Best
Maurizio Cotta
The Incremental Transformation of the Danish Legislative Elite: The Party System as Prime Mover	29	(21)
Mogens N. Pedersen
From Political Amateur to Professional Politician and Expert Representative: Parliamentary Recruitment in Finland since 1863	50	(38)
Ilkka Ruostetsaari
Detours to Modernity: Long-Term Trends of Parliamentary Recruitment in Republican France 1848--1999	88	(50)
Heinrich Best
Daniel Gaxie
Challenges, Failures, and Final Success: The Winding Path of German Parliamentary Leadership Groups towards a Structurally Integrated Elite 1848--1999	138	(58)
Heinrich Best
Christopher Hausmann
Karl Schmitt
Belated Professionalization of Parliamentary Elites: Hungary 1848--1999	196	(30)
Gabriella Ilonszki
Parliamentary Elite Transformations along the Discontinuous Road of Democratization: Italy 1861--1999	226	(44)
Maurizio Cotta
Alfio Mastropaolo
Luca Verzichelli
Representatives of the Dutch People: The Smooth Transformation of the Parliamentary Elite in a Consociational Democracy 1849--1998	270	(40)
Ineke Secker
Democratization and Parliamentary Elite Recruitment in Norway 1848--1996	310	(31)
Kjell A. Eliassen
Marit Sjovaag Marino
Political Recruitment and Elite Transformation in Modern Portugal 1870--1999: The Late Arrival of Mass Representation	341	(30)
Jose M. Magone
Spanish Diputados: From the 1876 Restoration to Consolidated Democracy	371	(92)
Juan Linz
Pilar Gangas
Miguel Jerez Mir
Continuity and Change: Legislative Recruitment in the United Kingdom 1868-1999	463	(30)
Michael Rush
Valerie Cromwell
Between Professionalization and Democratization: A Synoptic View on the Making of the European Representative	493	(34)
Maurizio Cotta
Heinrich Best
Index	527