Are they one of us? The effect of political professionalization on the political elite's social closure and the principal-agent problems, 1978–2019

Q2 Arts and Humanities
Andreu Paneque
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ABSTRACT This article examines the effect of political professionalization on descriptive representation and the principal-agent problems in the European micro-states and six large-scale democracies since 1980. By doing so, the article revisits an ongoing debate about the consequences of having a political elite professionalized. Using an original data set consisting of the individual and legislative professionalization characteristics of twelve European sovereign states and the aggregate socio-demographic characteristics of parliamentarians at national parliaments, this article shows that while legislative professionalization is a determinant for descriptive representation, politicians’ professionalization is a negative determinant for political responsiveness and accountability. Moreover, this article underlines population size as a determinant for the descriptive representation of certain socio-demographic characteristics and it describes the null effect of population size on the negative causal relation of politicians’ professionalization on political responsiveness and accountability.
他们是我们的人吗?政治职业化对政治精英社会封闭和委托代理问题的影响(1978-2019
本文考察了1980年以来欧洲微观国家和6个大规模民主国家的政治专业化对描述性代表性和委托代理问题的影响。通过这样做,文章重新审视了关于政治精英专业化的后果的持续辩论。本文使用由12个欧洲主权国家的个人和立法专业化特征以及各国议会议员的总体社会人口特征组成的原始数据集,表明虽然立法专业化是描述性代表性的决定因素,但政治家的专业化是政治响应和问责制的消极决定因素。此外,本文强调人口规模是某些社会人口特征描述性表征的决定因素,并描述了人口规模对政治家专业化对政治反应和问责制的负向因果关系的零效应。
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Parliaments, Estates and Representation
Parliaments, Estates and Representation Social Sciences-Sociology and Political Science
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