Parliamentary Elites In Transition

Author : Manina Kakepaki,Fani Kountouri
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783031116940

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Parliamentary Elites in Transition by Manina Kakepaki,Fani Kountouri Pdf

This edited volume contributes to a better understanding of parliamentary changes in times of political transition, and, specifically, the composition of the Greek Parliament before and after the debt crisis. It discusses the profiles of Greek MPs through the lens of continuity and renewal, starting with the first major political crisis after the Metapolitefsi in 1989 and ending with the last legislative elections of 2019. Greece attracted scholarly and international interest due to the transformations that the sovereign debt crisis provoked to its political and partisan system. It is one of the countries of the European periphery most severely hit during the great recession. However, no work so far has been devoted exclusively to the study of Greek parliamentary elites, their cultural and political characteristics, and the factors that shape their selection and election. The book is a multifaceted source of information for all those interested in understanding forms of political representation during normal times and times of crisis. Its distinctive advantage is that it offers an up to date and complete elite study in Greece comparable to similar European studies. Moreover, it is a useful tool for students, scholars and researchers interested in the study of political representation across Europe.

Author : Elena Semenova,Michael Edinger,Heinrich Best
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317935322

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Parliamentary Elites in Central and Eastern Europe by Elena Semenova,Michael Edinger,Heinrich Best Pdf

Legislators are entrusted with key parliamentary functions and are important figures in the decision-making process. Their behaviour as political elites is as much responsible for the failures and successes of the new democracies as their institutional designs and constitutional reforms. This book provides a comparative examination of representative elites and their role in democratic development in post-communist Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). It argues that as the drivers of the transformation process in CEE, individual and collective parliamentary actors matter. The authors provide an in-depth analysis of representatives from eleven national parliaments and explore country-specific features of recruitment and representation. They draw on an integrated dataset of parliamentary elites for individual, party family, and parliamentary variables over the 20 years following the collapse of Communism and develop a common framework for the analysis of variations in democratisation and political professionalisation between parliaments and political parties/party families across CEE. This unique volume will be of interest to students and scholars of comparative politics, elite research, post-communist politics, democratisation, legislative studies, and parliamentary representation.

Author : John Higley,Richard Gunther
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521424224

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Elites and Democratic Consolidation in Latin America and Southern Europe by John Higley,Richard Gunther Pdf

Examine recent transitions to democracy and the prospects for democratic stability in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, the Dominican Republic, Peru, Portugal, Spain and Uruguay.

Author : Giulia Sandri,Antonella Seddone
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000390131

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New Paths for Selecting Political Elites by Giulia Sandri,Antonella Seddone Pdf

This book provides a cross-country study of the consequences of the expansion of intra-party democracy, the trend towards more inclusive methods of selection for party candidates and leaders, and the impact of these on political elites in terms of sociopolitical profile and patterns of careers. It explores the link between political organizations and political elites, by studying the role of parties in parliamentary and political selection and its impact on the political leadership appointed. Putting an emphasis on primary elections, it analyses the party elites that emerge from those selection processes and those democratized organizational settings. It focuses not only on the analysis of the processes through which party elites are selected and the consequences at the level of the party but also at the level of party elites themselves, i.e. what impact party primaries have on the characteristics parties’ candidates and leaders. The book offers a theoretical, comparative, and empirical account of the internal electoral processes of parties and their impact on political recruitment. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of political elites, political parties and party systems, electoral politics, democracy, populism, and leadership, and more broadly to comparative politics.

Author : Jennifer A. Yoder
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015047603025

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From East Germans to Germans? by Jennifer A. Yoder Pdf

This study examines the problems of integrating East Germans into a political system that they did not create.

Author : Lars Vogel,Ronald Gebauer,Axel Salheiser
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351814119

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The Contested Status of Political Elites by Lars Vogel,Ronald Gebauer,Axel Salheiser Pdf

Contemporary Western societies are witnessing ground-breaking social, economic and political changes at an accelerating pace. These changes are challenging the way democracy works and the role that political elites play in this system of government. Using a theoretical and empirical approach, this volume argues that political elites are urged to develop new strategies in order to achieve interest aggregation, to safeguard collective action, and to maintain elite autonomy and stability. The adaptive capacities of political elites are assessed through case studies, comparative and longitudinal analyses of their social structure, their recruitment patterns, and their attitudes. The book includes contributions from reputable scholars in the field of elite research and specialists on individual political systems across Europe and the US. It provides an analytical framework demonstrating that political elites are inevitable and potentially able to respond successfully to varying challenges. The book will be of key interest to scholars and students of political elites, democracy, comparative politics, political participation and European Politics.

Author : Mattéi Dogan
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9004128085

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Elite Configurations at the Apex of Power by Mattéi Dogan Pdf

This book, prepared under the auspices of the IPSA Research Committee on Political Elites, focuses on the interpenetration between various types of elites. The contributions to this book reveal contrasting patterns of recruitment and selection in terms of career paths, visibility, influence, and power of different elite circles.

Author : Renaud Egreteau
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780192858740

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Crafting Parliament in Myanmar's Disciplined Democracy (2011-2021) by Renaud Egreteau Pdf

This volume offers the most significant analysis of how parliament re-emerged in Myanmar in the span of a post-junta decade (2011-2021).

Author : Russell J. Dalton,Hans-Dieter Klingemann
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 1010 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199270125

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Oxford Handbook of Political Behavior by Russell J. Dalton,Hans-Dieter Klingemann Pdf

The Oxford Handbooks of Political Science is a ten-volume set of reference books offering authoritative and engaging critical overviews of the state of political science. Each volume focuses on a particular part of the discipline, with volumes on Public Policy, Political Theory, Political Economy, Contextual Political Analysis, Comparative Politics, International Relations, Law and Politics, Political Behavior, Political Institutions, and Political Methodology. The project as a whole is under the General Editorship of Robert E. Goodin, with each volume being edited by a distinguished international group of specialists in their respective fields. The books set out not just to report on the discipline, but to shape it. The series will be an indispensable point of reference for anyone working in political science and adjacent disciplines. What does democracy expect of its citizens, and how do the citizenry match these expectations? This Oxford Handbook examines the role of the citizen in contemporary politics, based on essays from the world's leading scholars of political behavior research. The recent expansion of democracy has both given new rights and created new responsibilities for the citizenry. These political changes are paralleled by tremendous advances in our empirical knowledge of citizens and their behaviors through the institutionalization of systematic, comparative study of contemporary publics--ranging from the advanced industrial democracies to the emerging democracies of Central and Eastern Europe, to new survey research on the developing world. These essays describe how citizens think about politics, how their values shape their behavior, the patterns of participation, the sources of vote choice, and how public opinion impacts on governing and public policy. This is the most comprehensive review of the cross-national literature of citizen behavior and the relationship between citizens and their governments. It will become the first point of reference for scholars and students interested in these key issues.

Author : M. Dobry
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401141628

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Democratic and Capitalist Transitions in Eastern Europe by M. Dobry Pdf

here ofexchange, and borrowing in debates between these disciplines, all the more so, as we shall see a little further on, as the analysis of the Central and East European transformations has also contributed to introduce into political science and sociology theoretical systematizations first formulated in economics. In addition to this opening up to the objects and theories of economics, the pseudo-"dilemma" ofsimultaneity produced, by a kind of feedback, another series of effects on transitology and the related research domains. Contrary to most expectations and predictions in the wake ofthe 1989 upheavals - affirmations that the "dilemmas", "problems" or "challenges" of the transitions in Central and Eastern Europe ought to have been dealt with and resolved one after the other in sequence, in the manner of the more or less idealized trajectories of Great Britain or Spain (trajectories significantly enough promoted, far beyond the circles of scholars, as a "model" of transition), and above all, contrary to the assumption that superposing a radical economic transformation upon a transition to democracy would make the whole edifice thoroughly unworkable, unstable or dangerous - it must be stated clearly out that the two processes, in their "simultaneity", are not necessarily incompatible. This is one of the main findings stressed upon in several chapters of this book.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Communism
ISBN : UIUC:30112003477939

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Problems of Communism by Anonim Pdf

Author : Michael Albertus,Victor Menaldo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107199828

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Authoritarianism and the Elite Origins of Democracy by Michael Albertus,Victor Menaldo Pdf

Provides an innovative theory of regime transitions and outcomes, and tests it using extensive evidence between 1800 and today.

Author : Philip Norton,David M. Olson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135213503

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The New Parliaments of Central and Eastern Europe by Philip Norton,David M. Olson Pdf

What role have parliaments played in the dramatic changes occurring in Eastern and Central Europe? Adopting a common research framework, the contributors analyse in detail the role and operations of parliaments in ten of the new democracies. They focus on what determines their capacity to have some impact on public policy. They identify the significance of parliaments operating in often hybrid systems of government, with the relationship between the executive and legislature not well defined, and with an absence of constraining influence that typify western political systems.

Author : Cyril Benoît,Olivier Rozenberg
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-27
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781789906516

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Handbook of Parliamentary Studies by Cyril Benoît,Olivier Rozenberg Pdf

This comprehensive Handbook takes a multidisciplinary approach to the study of parliaments, offering novel insights into the key aspects of legislatures, legislative institutions and legislative politics. Connecting rich and diverse fields of inquiry, it illuminates how the study of parliaments has shaped a wider understanding surrounding politics and society over the past decades.

Author : Suzanne Francis
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011-12-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789004224094

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Institutionalizing Elites by Suzanne Francis Pdf

This book offers a new framework for the study of political elites and an empirically rich interrogation of the realization, accumulation and exercise of institutionalized political power by political elites in the African context of the Provincial Legislature of KwaZulu-Natal.