Parliamentary Representatives in Europe 1848-2000 deals with long-term changes in parliamentary recruitment and patterns of political careers in eleven European countries (Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain and the United Kingdom) from the middle of the 19th century to the end of the millennium. Through individual country chapters, written by international experts native to each area, the book focuses on transformations in the social background, education, political career paths, and entrenchment in pressure groups and party offices of those who sat in national parliaments. These transformations are traced on the basis of a comprehensive and integrated data-set (the DATACUBE) providing, for the first time, the prerequisites for a truly comparative study of parliamentary representation in Europe. In addition, information about institutional settings, the development of party systems, and the political events and processes of social change that helped to shape the recruitment and career paths of members of parliament, is given for each country. Further, by placing the representative at the centre, two fundamental and to some extent contradictory processes underlying the development towards parliamentary democracy in Europe, namely democratisation and political professionalisation, are addressed. The book concludes with a synopsis which proposes a developmental model of parliamentary representation in Europe during the last 150 years.
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Heinrich Best is a Professor of Sociology at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena.
Maurizio Cotta is Professor of Political Science and Comparative Politics at the University of Siena. Luca Verzichelli is Associate Professor of Political Science and Italian Politics at the University of Siena.
Marit Søvaag is Associate Professor at the Department of Law and Governance, BI Norwegian Business School.
Valerie Cromwell is an honorary Fellow of the Institute of Historical Research at the School of Advanced Study in the University of London, having been Director of the History of Parliament, 1991-2001.
Kjell A Eliassen is Professor of Public Management and Director of the Centre for European and Asian Studies at the Norwegian School of Management - BI in Oslo and professor of European Studies at The Free University in Brussels.
Pilar Gangas Peiró is a Senior Researcher and Associate Professor at Carlos III University.
Daniel Gaxie is a political sociologist and Professor of political science at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. He has conducted extensive research on political participation, attitudes and behaviour, elites, institutions and public policies. As well as his involvement in the INTUNE and Eurelites projects he is known for his book Le cens caché (The Hidden Disfranchisement) first published in 1978.
Christopher Hausmann is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Northwestern College.
Gabriella Ilonszki is Professor of Political Science at Corvinus University of Budapest. Her English language publications include three edited volumes: Opposition Parties in European Legislatures: Conflict or Consensus (with Elisabetta De Giorgi, Routledge, 2018), Post-Communist Parliaments: Change and Stability in the Second Decade (with D.M. Olson, Routledge, 2012), and Perceptions of the European Union in New Member States: A Comparative Perspective (Routledge, 2010). She has published articles in journals such as the Journal of Legislative Studies, East European Politics, Europe-Asia Studies, the Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics. She has also authored several chapters in volumes on representation, parliamentary government and political elite, gender, areas that constitute her main research interest.
Miguel Jerez Mir is Professor of Political Science at the University of Granada.
Juan J Linz is Sterling Professor of Political Science at Yale University.
José M Magone is Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Hull, Great Britain.
Alfio Mastropaolo is professor of Political Science at the University of Turin. Among his works are Antipolitica: Alle origini della crisi italiana (L'Ancora, Napoli, 2000), La mucca pazza della democrazia: Nuove destre, populismo, antipolitica (Bollati Boringhieri, Torino, 2005), The Center-Left's Poisoned Victory (edited with JL Briquet, Berghahn, New York, 2007).
Mogens N Pedersen is Professor of Political Science at the University of Southern Denmark at Odense.
Ilkka Ruostetsaari is a Finnish social scientist and Professor of Political Science at the University of Tampere.
Michael Rush is Emeritus Politics Professor at the University of Exeter
Luca Verzichelli is Professor of Political Science at the Centre for the Study of Political Change (CIRCaP, University of Siena). His academic interests cover the field of comparative political institutions, political elite and budgetary politics.
