Political Careers in Europe: Career Patterns in Multi-Level Systems

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

Edition: 1/2015
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
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1. 1. What is a Political Career? No access
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2. 2. Political Careers as a Research Subject – A Brief Literature Review No access
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3. 3. The Structure and Contributions of This Volume No access
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1. 1. Aims and Structure of the Chapter No access
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2. 2. Political Careers in Italy: The Traditional View No access
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3. 3. Political Careers in a (Relatively) New Political System: How Much Change Do We Expect? No access
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4. 4. Testing the Hypotheses: Career Patterns in Italy during the Early Years of the 21st Century No access
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5. 5. Conclusion: Towards an “Open Market” of Political Careers? No access
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1. 1. Parliamentary Careers as an Analytical Category No access
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2. 2. The Opportunity Structure for Inter-level Movements No access
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3. 3. Frequency of Inter-level Movement No access
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4. 4. Are Parliamentary Level-hoppers Different? No access
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5. 5. Patterns of Multi-level Careers No access
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6. 6. Conclusion No access
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1. 1. How to Interpret Upward and Downward Mobility - Analysing German MEPs' Career Trajectories No access
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2. 2. Political Careers in a Multi-level System: the Case of Germany No access
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3. 3. Frequency of Career Moves and Sequence of Offices No access
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4. 4. Towards a Typology of MEPs with Experience on Two or More Levels No access
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5. 5. Conclusion: New Career Patterns Ahead? No access
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1. 1. The Belgian Federal System: of Byzantine Complexity No access
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2. 2. The Institutional Setting (1970-2006): New Career Opportunities for the Belgian Elite? No access
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3. 3. Empirical Findings (1981-2006) No access
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4. 4. Conclusion: On Phantom Candidates and Intertwined Autonomous Elections No access
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1. 1. Exploring Political Careers No access
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2. 2. Up on the Ladder? Some Theoretical Considerations No access
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3. 3. Three Levels of Politics No access
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4. 4. Political Offices and Institutions in Romania No access
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5. 5. Paths to Parliament No access
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6. 6. Career Perspectives of Legislators No access
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7. 7. Local Elites: Careers and Perspectives No access
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8. 8. Conclusion No access
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1. 1. Political Careers in a Multi-levelled Europe No access
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2. 2. A Career-Based Typology of MEPs No access
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3. 3. Inter-Polity “Incumbency Effects” No access
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4. 4. Conclusion No access
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1. 1. Political Careers in a Multi-Level Europe No access
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2. 2. Linear Springboard Careers from Regional to National Parliaments No access
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3. 3. Reverse Career Paths from the National to the Regional Parliament No access
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4. 4. Career Paths to and from the European Parliament No access
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5. 5. Career Paths from the Regional Parliaments to the European Parliament No access
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6. 6. Conclusions No access
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1. 1. Legislative Professionalisation No access
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2. 2. The Consequences of Professionalisation for Legislative Institutions No access
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3. 3. Professionalisation and Membership Turnover over Time No access
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4. 4. Legislative Career Patterns in the United States No access
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5. 5. Concluding Thoughts on Professionalisation and Careers No access
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Notes on Contributors No access Pages 225 - 228

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