Democratic representation in Europe : diversity, change, and convergence /
Contributor(s): Cotta, Maurizio | Best, Heinrich | European Consortium for Political Research.
Series: Comparative politics.Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007Description: xxiii, 527 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780199234202 (alk. paper); 9780199234202:; 0199234205 (alk. paper).Subject(s): European Parliament | Representative government and representation -- European Union countries | Democracy -- European Union countries![](/opac-tmpl/bootstrap/images/filefind.png)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [483]-508) and index.
Parliamentary representatives from early democratization to the age of consolidated democracy : national variations and international convergence in a long-term perspective / Maurizio Cotta and Heinrich Best -- Decline of the nobility / Michael Rush -- From servants of the state to elected representatives : public sector background among members of parliament / Maurizio Cotta and Pedro Tavares de Almeida -- Why so few and why so slow? : women as parliamentary representatives in Europe from a longitudinal perspective / Verona Christmas-Best and Ulrik Kjoer -- Cultural capital and political selection : educational backgrounds of parliamentarians / Daniel Gaxie and Laurent Godmer -- Career through the party : recruitment of party politicians in parliament / Stefaan Fiers and Ineke Secker -- Geographical dimension of parliamentary recruitment--among Native sons and parachutists / Mogens N. Pedersen, Ulrik Kjœr and Kjell A. Eliassen -- Changing nature and role of European Conservative Parties in parliamentary institutions from 1848 to the twenty-first century / Valerie Cromwell and Luca Verzichelli -- Restructuring of the European Political Centre : withering liberal and persisting agrarian party families / Ilkka Ruostetsaari -- Christian democratic parliamentarians : from a century of multifaceted recruitment to the convergence within a 'larger family'? / Luca Verzichelli -- Socialist and communist members of parliament : distinctiveness, convergence, and variance / Gabriella Ilonszki -- Extreme right / Juan J. Linz, Miguel Jerez Mir and Carmen Ortega -- Parliamentary elites of New European Party families : unsuccessful challenges or chaotic signs of change? / Filippo Tronconi and Luca Verzichelli -- Cleavage representation in European Parliamentary history / Heinrich Best -- Paths of institutional development and elite transformations / Maurizio Cotta and Luca Verzichelli.
This title encourages a better understanding of relations between social and political change, and the importance of institutional factors in shaping the political elites of European democracies.