Political Professionalization Beyond National Borders: An Analysis of Italian MPs in Overseas Constituencies

IF 2.5 3区社会学 Q1 POLITICAL SCIENCE

Politics and Governance Pub Date : 2024-02-06 DOI:10.17645/pag.7470

Matteo Boldrini

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Abstract

Among European countries, Italy is one of the relatively few cases to provide a quota of reserved parliamentary seats for non-resident citizens. Despite an increased scientific interest in the topic, the group of MPs elected in Overseas Constituencies remains overlooked in the available literature. The gap relates to factors such as their socio-biographical profile, precedent careers, parliamentary activity, the role played in their recruitment by the party abroad or at a national level, and their style of representation. In this vein, the article investigates the career profiles of Italian MPs elected in Overseas Constituencies from 2006 (the first elections with the introduction of citizen representatives living abroad) to 2022. Based on an original data set and through an analysis of their biographical and political characteristics, the article builds a typology of elected MPs abroad by cross-referencing two dimensions derived from the literature: the linkage with the host country and the presence of previous political and associational experiences. The analysis shows that different types of MPs have different career lengths and a different capacity to collect preference votes.

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超越国界的政治职业化：对海外选区意大利议员的分析

在欧洲国家中，意大利是为非居民公民保留议会席位配额相对较少的国家之一。尽管科学界对这一主题的兴趣日益浓厚，但在现有文献中，海外选区当选的议员群体仍被忽视。这一空白涉及到他们的社会生物特征、职业生涯先例、议会活动、海外或国家层面的政党在招募他们时所发挥的作用以及他们的代表风格等因素。在此背景下，文章研究了 2006 年（首次引入海外公民代表的选举）至 2022 年期间在海外选区当选的意大利议员的职业概况。文章以原始数据集为基础，通过对其履历和政治特征的分析，对照文献中得出的两个维度：与东道国的联系以及以往的政治和结社经历，建立了海外当选议员的类型学。分析表明，不同类型的国会议员具有不同的职业生涯长度和收集偏好选票的能力。

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