7352166
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10.5281/zenodo.7352166
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New or old elites in politics? On change and stability in the career background of Austrian legislators, 1945-2019
Korom, Philipp
University of Graz
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elite circiulation, political elites, legislative recruitment, prosopography, data visualisation
<p>To understand if national legislative elites how legislative recruitment has changed over time this article investigates the career profiles of all members (N=1,158) of the Austrian National Council (<em>Nationalrat</em>) between 1945 and 2019 that either represented Austria´s Social Democrats (SPÖ) or People´s Party (ÖVP). The study finds a great deal more stability than change as parties stick to decentralised recruitment practices. Most MPs are rooted in local party branches/suborganisations and either directly enter the <em>Nationalrat</em> or rise through the party machine. The strongly increasing importance of local political resources as well as the growing share of career politicans among MPs hint to party-centered political professionalization as the dominant long-term trend. A turn of trends in legislative recruitment channels becomes only visible with regard to the professional background of MPs as public service becomes a less important supplier of parliamentary representatives.</p>
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2022-03-28
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