Parliamentary representatives in Europe, 1848-2000
Subtitle: legislative recruitment and careers in eleven European countries
By: edited by Heinrich Best and Maurizio Cotta
Contributors: Best, Heinrich; Cotta, Maurizio, 1947-
Series: Comparative European politics
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 549
Subjects: Legislative bodies -- Europe -- History; Legislators -- Europe -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Elite transformation and modes of representation since the mid-nineteenth century : some theoretical considerations / Heinrich Best and Maurizio Cotta; title: The incremental transformation of the Danish legislative elite : the party system as prime mover / Mogens N. Pedersen; title: From political amateur to professional politician and expert representative : parliamentary recruitment in Finland since 1863 / Ilkka Ruostetsaari; title: Detours to modernity : long-term trends of parliamentary recruitment in republican France 1848-1999 / Heinrich Best and Daniel Gaxie; title: Challenges, failures, and final success : the winding path of German parliamentary leadership groups towards a structurally integrated elite 1848-1999 / Heinrich Best, Christopher Hausmann, and Karl Schmitt; title: Belated professionalization of parliamentary elites : Hungary 1848-1999 / Gabriella Ilonszki; title: Parliamentary elite transformations along the discontinuous road of democratization : Italy 1861-1999 / Maurizio Cotta, Alfio Mastropaolo, and Luca Verzichelli; title: Representatives of the Dutch people : the smooth transformation of the parliamentary elite in a consociational democracy 1849-1998 / Ineke Secker; title: Democratization and parliamentary elite recruitment in Norway 1848-1996 / Kjell A. Eliassen and Marit Sjøvaag Marino; title: Political recruitment and elite transformation in modern Portugal 1870-1999 : the late arrival of mass representation / José M. Magone; title: Spanish diputados : from the 1876 restoration to consolidated democracy / Juan Linz, Pilar Gangas and Miguel Jerez Mir; title: Continuity and change : legislative recruitment in the United Kingdom 1868-1999 / Michael Rush and Valerie Cromwell; title: Between professionalization and democratization : a synoptic view on the making of the European representative / Maurizio Cotta and Heinrich Best