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Democratic Representation in Europe - Diversity, Change, and Convergence (Hardcover)
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Democratic Representation in Europe - Diversity, Change, and Convergence (Hardcover)
Series: Comparative Politics
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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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