CONVERGING REPRESENTATIVE ELITES IN EUROPE? AN INTRODUCTION TO THE EURELITE PROJEST

• Authors: Best H. , Edinger M.
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This article provides an overview of the aims, the research design and the activities of the EurElite project, a project devoted to the comparative study of representative elites across Europe. Through investigating long-term trends in the composition of parliaments and member recruitment, the scholars involved in the EurElite activities attempt to identify the degree and patterns of convergence among national deputies on the continent. With the inclusion of democratically elected legislators from about a dozen post-communist countries, a new dimension has been added to the question of convergence: elite integration across Europe, i.e. between the elites in the new democracies and those in Western Europe. The scope of the research also encompasses the study of the European Parliament as the site of the possible emergence of a supra-national elite in Europe. The article also provides information on the structure and variables of the (key) data set and its regional/temporal coverage.

Keywords

EN

ELITE; EURELITE PROJECT; PARLIAMENT

Discipline

• SOCIOLOGY: SOCIOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Sociology, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Sociologický časopis. Czech Sociological Review
• Year: 2005
• Volume: 41
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 499-510
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Best H.

author

Edinger M.

• H. Best, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, PF 07737 Jena, Germany

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

07CZAAAA03096367