Democratic representation in Europe : diversity, change, and convergence

edited by Maurizio Cotta and Heinrich Best

Democratic Representation in Europe: Diversity, Change and convergence explores representation as a core element of democracies in the modern era. Over the past 150 years parliamentary representation has developed into a main link between polity and society, and parliamentary representatives have come to form the nucleus of political elites. The twenty authors of the 16 chapters follow a comparative and empirical approach by exploiting the unique longitudinal data-base of the EURELITE project, which has gathered standardized evidence about the structures of parliamentary representation in 11 European countries and their development over time; in many countries over 160 years. Following on from an earlier book by the same editors (Parliamentary Representatives in Europe 1848-2000.) which focused on trends in single European countries, Democratic Representation in Europe pursues a trans-national approach by comparing the mechanisms and modes of parliamentary recruitment and career formation between the main party families and various categories of the population in European societies. Such cross-national analyses, which include a longitudinal account of female representation throughout modern European parliamentary history, have not been attempted before. The book concludes with longitudinal in-depth analyses of cleavage representation in European parliamentary history and of the impact of the institutional factor on political elites' transformations. Democratic Representation in Europe contributes to a better understanding of relations between social and political change, and of the importance of institutional factors in shaping the political elites of European democracies. In so doing it can help substantiate theoretical debates in the social and political sciences on issues such as historical institutionalism and path dependency.

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[目次]

  • 1. Parliamentary representatives from early democratisation to the age of consolidated democracy
  • PART I: DIMENSIONS OF VARIATION
  • 2. The decline of the nobility
  • 3. From servants of the state to elected representatives
  • 4. Why so few and why so slow?
  • 5. Cultural capital and political selection
  • 6. A career through the party
  • 7. The geographical dimension of parliamentary recruitment
  • PART II: VARIATIONS ACROSS PARTY FAMILIES
  • 8. The changing nature and role of European conservative parties in parliamentary institutions
  • 9. Restructuring of the European political centre: withering Liberals and persisting Agrarian party families
  • 10. Christian Democratic parliamentarians: from a century of multifaceted recruitment to the convergence within a larger family ?
  • 11. Socialist and Communist members of parliament: distinctiveness, convergence, variance
  • 12. The extreme right
  • 13. Parliamentary elites of new European party families: Unsuccessful challenges or chaotic signs of change?
  • PART III: COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSES
  • 14. Cleavage representation in European parliamentary history
  • 15. Paths of institutional development and elite transformations
  • Conclusions
  • References

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書名 Democratic representation in Europe : diversity, change, and convergence
著作者等 Best, Heinrich
Cotta, Maurizio
シリーズ名 Comparative politics
出版元 Oxford University Press
刊行年月 2007
ページ数 xxiii, 527 p.
大きさ 24 cm
ISBN 9780199234202
NCID BA84225721
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言語 英語
出版国 イギリス
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