Recruitment and Advancement of Elites

Abstract

This panel is dedicated to the rise to power, career paths and post-tenure fate of political elites across different political regimes and systems. Whereas academic research on the first question is hardly new in the context of democracies, the two others have benefited in the latest decade or so from an increasing attention to multi-level settings offering new opportunities for career development, the availability of data for large numbers of professional politicians and even more recently the development of new methodological tools such as sequence analysis that address research challenges linked to such investigations. Authoritarian regimes and democratizing states are on the other hand typically characterized by fewer cases of elite turnover and lower data accessibility, making for a more qualitative type of inquiry regarding the ascent to, and the transmission of power. We welcome papers allowing the research community to take stock of the latest developments in these different strands.

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Pathways to Power and Role of Individual Political Capital in the Obtainment of Ministerial Offices	View Paper Details
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