Political Careers in Europe

Dr. Michael Edinger; Stefan Jahr

doi:10.5771/9783845239200

Summary

European integration not only has changed the career opportunities for politicians, it has also expanded them. This volume is dedicated to the study of political career patterns. It focusses on parliamentary careers in select European countries, but the U.S. is also included as a long-standing system with multi-level politics. The contributions represent a systematic investigation into levelhopping practices in Europe. While discussing the logic of moves across political levels, special attention is given to the impact of institutional reforms. The results indicate that the traditional model of career mobility, with the national level as the apex of a career, is still of importance in most countries however, a clear trend towards multi-directional political careers is found.

About Editors:

Dr. Michael Edinger is Senior Lecturer in Political Science and Sociology at the University of Jena, Germany. Dr. Stefan Jahr is Senior Information Analyst at the University of Manchester, United Kingdom. Like most of the authors the editors have been involved in a pan-European research project on parliamentary elites.

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 2015
ISBN-Print: 978-3-8329-2321-1
ISBN-Online: 978-3-8452-3920-0
Publisher: Nomos, Baden-Baden
Series: Studien zum Parlamentarismus
Volume: 5
Language: English
Pages: 228
Product type: Edited Book

Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis No access Pages 1 - 8
Stefan Jahr, Michael Edinger
1. 1. What is a Political Career? No access Stefan Jahr, Michael Edinger
2. 2. Political Careers as a Research Subject – A Brief Literature Review No access Stefan Jahr, Michael Edinger
3. 3. The Structure and Contributions of This Volume No access Stefan Jahr, Michael Edinger
Michele Lo Russo, Luca Verzichelli
1. 1. Aims and Structure of the Chapter No access Michele Lo Russo, Luca Verzichelli
2. 2. Political Careers in Italy: The Traditional View No access Michele Lo Russo, Luca Verzichelli
3. 3. Political Careers in a (Relatively) New Political System: How Much Change Do We Expect? No access Michele Lo Russo, Luca Verzichelli
4. 4. Testing the Hypotheses: Career Patterns in Italy during the Early Years of the 21st Century No access Michele Lo Russo, Luca Verzichelli
5. 5. Conclusion: Towards an “Open Market” of Political Careers? No access Michele Lo Russo, Luca Verzichelli
Stefan Jahr
1. 1. Parliamentary Careers as an Analytical Category No access Stefan Jahr
2. 2. The Opportunity Structure for Inter-level Movements No access Stefan Jahr
3. 3. Frequency of Inter-level Movement No access Stefan Jahr
4. 4. Are Parliamentary Level-hoppers Different? No access Stefan Jahr
5. 5. Patterns of Multi-level Careers No access Stefan Jahr
6. 6. Conclusion No access Stefan Jahr
Michael Edinger
1. 1. How to Interpret Upward and Downward Mobility - Analysing German MEPs' Career Trajectories No access Michael Edinger
2. 2. Political Careers in a Multi-level System: the Case of Germany No access Michael Edinger
3. 3. Frequency of Career Moves and Sequence of Offices No access Michael Edinger
4. 4. Towards a Typology of MEPs with Experience on Two or More Levels No access Michael Edinger
5. 5. Conclusion: New Career Patterns Ahead? No access Michael Edinger
Stefaan Fiers, Jo Noppe
1. 1. The Belgian Federal System: of Byzantine Complexity No access Stefaan Fiers, Jo Noppe
2. 2. The Institutional Setting (1970-2006): New Career Opportunities for the Belgian Elite? No access Stefaan Fiers, Jo Noppe
3. 3. Empirical Findings (1981-2006) No access Stefaan Fiers, Jo Noppe
4. 4. Conclusion: On Phantom Candidates and Intertwined Autonomous Elections No access Stefaan Fiers, Jo Noppe
Laurenţiu Ştefan
1. 1. Exploring Political Careers No access Laurenţiu Ştefan
2. 2. Up on the Ladder? Some Theoretical Considerations No access Laurenţiu Ştefan
3. 3. Three Levels of Politics No access Laurenţiu Ştefan
4. 4. Political Offices and Institutions in Romania No access Laurenţiu Ştefan
5. 5. Paths to Parliament No access Laurenţiu Ştefan
6. 6. Career Perspectives of Legislators No access Laurenţiu Ştefan
7. 7. Local Elites: Careers and Perspectives No access Laurenţiu Ştefan
8. 8. Conclusion No access Laurenţiu Ştefan
Ulrik Kjær
1. 1. Political Careers in a Multi-levelled Europe No access Ulrik Kjær
2. 2. A Career-Based Typology of MEPs No access Ulrik Kjær
3. 3. Inter-Polity “Incumbency Effects” No access Ulrik Kjær
4. 4. Conclusion No access Ulrik Kjær
Klaus Stolz
1. 1. Political Careers in a Multi-Level Europe No access Klaus Stolz
2. 2. Linear Springboard Careers from Regional to National Parliaments No access Klaus Stolz
3. 3. Reverse Career Paths from the National to the Regional Parliament No access Klaus Stolz
4. 4. Career Paths to and from the European Parliament No access Klaus Stolz
5. 5. Career Paths from the Regional Parliaments to the European Parliament No access Klaus Stolz
6. 6. Conclusions No access Klaus Stolz
Peverill Squire
1. 1. Legislative Professionalisation No access Peverill Squire
2. 2. The Consequences of Professionalisation for Legislative Institutions No access Peverill Squire
3. 3. Professionalisation and Membership Turnover over Time No access Peverill Squire
4. 4. Legislative Career Patterns in the United States No access Peverill Squire
5. 5. Concluding Thoughts on Professionalisation and Careers No access Peverill Squire
Notes on Contributors No access Pages 225 - 228