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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Dedication
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Contributors
- Dedication
- 1 Professional Politicians: Towards a Comparative Perspective
- 2 Australia: Party Politicians as a Political Class
- 3 Belgium: Political Professionals and the Crisis of the Party State
- 4 Canada: Political Careers between Executive Hopes and Constituency Work
- 5 Denmark: Professionalism in an Egalitarian Political Culture
- 6 Finland: From Political Amateurs to Political Class
- 7 France: Enduring Notables, Weak Parties, and Powerful Technocrats
- 8 Germany: From “Guilds of Notables” to Political Class
- 9 Great Britain: From the Prevalence of the Amateur to the Dominance of the Professional Politician
- 10 Ireland: Party Loyalists with a Personal Base
- 11 Israel: Community, State, and Market in the Shaping of the Political Class
- 12 Italy: The Homeland of the Political Class
- 13 Japan: Political Careers between Bureaucracy and Hereditary Constituencies
- 14 Netherlands: Political Careers between Central Party Dominance and New Pressures
- 15 New Zealand: Parliamentary Careers and Electoral Reform
- 16 Norway: Professionalization—Party-oriented and Constituency-based
- 17 Portugal: The Patrimonial Heritage and the Emergence of a Democratic Political Class
- 18 Spain: A Textbook Case of Partitocracy
- 19 Sweden: Between Participation Ideal and Professionalism
- 20 Switzerland: The Militia Myth and Incomplete Professionalization
- 21 United States: A Political Class of Entrepreneurs
- Subject Index
(p.416) Subject Index
(p.416) Subject Index
- Source:
- The Political Class in Advanced Democracies
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Dedication
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Contributors
- Dedication
- 1 Professional Politicians: Towards a Comparative Perspective
- 2 Australia: Party Politicians as a Political Class
- 3 Belgium: Political Professionals and the Crisis of the Party State
- 4 Canada: Political Careers between Executive Hopes and Constituency Work
- 5 Denmark: Professionalism in an Egalitarian Political Culture
- 6 Finland: From Political Amateurs to Political Class
- 7 France: Enduring Notables, Weak Parties, and Powerful Technocrats
- 8 Germany: From “Guilds of Notables” to Political Class
- 9 Great Britain: From the Prevalence of the Amateur to the Dominance of the Professional Politician
- 10 Ireland: Party Loyalists with a Personal Base
- 11 Israel: Community, State, and Market in the Shaping of the Political Class
- 12 Italy: The Homeland of the Political Class
- 13 Japan: Political Careers between Bureaucracy and Hereditary Constituencies
- 14 Netherlands: Political Careers between Central Party Dominance and New Pressures
- 15 New Zealand: Parliamentary Careers and Electoral Reform
- 16 Norway: Professionalization—Party-oriented and Constituency-based
- 17 Portugal: The Patrimonial Heritage and the Emergence of a Democratic Political Class
- 18 Spain: A Textbook Case of Partitocracy
- 19 Sweden: Between Participation Ideal and Professionalism
- 20 Switzerland: The Militia Myth and Incomplete Professionalization
- 21 United States: A Political Class of Entrepreneurs
- Subject Index
