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.
This book brings together leading scholars in the field of electoral studies and political representation to examine the democratization of the recrui...
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...
Democratic Representation in Europe: Diversity, Change and Convergence explores representation as a core element of democracies in the modern era. Ove...
The volume presents a collection of articles and analyses exploring a broad range of aspects of post-1989 developments ranging from historical legacies and politics of history, changing values and mentality, old and new inequalities, elites and European integration, written by recognised social scientists from both Eastern and Western Europe.
The volume presents a collection of articles and analyses exploring a broad range of aspects of post-1989 developments ranging from historical legacie...
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...
Legislators are entrusted with key parliamentary functions and are important figures in the decision-making process. Their behaviour as political e...
Im Rahmen mehrerer Veranstaltungen hat das Informationszentrum Sozial wissenschaften seit 1989 die aktuelle Diskussion um Einsatz und Nutzen von 1 moderner Informationstechnologie in den Sozialwissenschaften gefordert. ) Hierbei lassen sich zwei grobe Richtungen bestimmen: Informationssysteme als Datenlieferanten fur die Sozialforschung Wissensbasierte Techniken als adaquate sozialwissenschaftliche Infor mationsverarbeitung Beide Themenrichtungen sind sowohl fur die Sozialwissenschaften, wie auch fur die Informationswissenschaft von hohem aktuellem Interesse, was schliesslich den Ausschlag...
Im Rahmen mehrerer Veranstaltungen hat das Informationszentrum Sozial wissenschaften seit 1989 die aktuelle Diskussion um Einsatz und Nutzen von 1 mod...
Beliefs held by US and European elites about unregulated markets and a currency union without fiscal union led to a transatlantic crisis unmatched in severity since the Great Depression. Leading scholars of elites analyze how elites have responded to the crisis, are altered by it and what this 'hour of elites' means for democracy.
Beliefs held by US and European elites about unregulated markets and a currency union without fiscal union led to a transatlantic crisis unmatched in ...
Wie unterscheidet sich die Bundesrepublik von anderen Landern auf der Ebene der Sozialstruktur, der Verhaltensweisen und Wertorientierungen? Welche Veranderungen haben sich in dieser Hinsicht in den letzten Jahren ereignet? Und welche Transformationsprozesse haben sich in den neuen Bundeslandern mit welchen Folgen vollzogen? Diese zentralen Fragen werden in diesem Band fur ausgewahlte Themenkomplexe auf der Grundlage neuer empirischer Studien behandelt."
Wie unterscheidet sich die Bundesrepublik von anderen Landern auf der Ebene der Sozialstruktur, der Verhaltensweisen und Wertorientierungen? Welche Ve...
"Who rules in Eastern Europe?" became a fundamental question for western researchers and other observers after communist regimes were established in the region, and it gained further importance as state socialism expanded into Central Europe after the Second World War. A political order which, according to Leninist theory of the state and to subsequent Stalinist political practice, was primarily a highly centralised and repressive power organisation, directed, as if it were natural, researchers attention towards the highest echelon of office holders in party and state. Extreme centralisation...
"Who rules in Eastern Europe?" became a fundamental question for western researchers and other observers after communist regimes were established in t...
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...
Legislators are entrusted with key parliamentary functions and are important figures in the decision-making process. Their behaviour as political e...
