TY - CHAP

T1 - Political Careers of Ministers and Prime Ministers

AU - Müller-Rommel, Ferdinand

AU - Kroeber, Corinna

AU - Vercesi, Michelangelo

PY - 2020/7/30

Y1 - 2020/7/30

N2 - The concept of career, while ubiquitous in elite research, has hardly received any comprehensive analytical treatment in the study of political executives. This chapter will summarize and develop the basic theoretical and methodological approaches as well as empirical findings of studies investigating political careers of cabinet members in democratic parliamentary and semi-presidential systems at the national level. It is divided into three sections. The first provides a sketch of the basic research questions that have been raised (and discussed) in the field of executive careers studies over the past decades. The second part offers a systematic survey of the current state of the literature concerned with ministers’ and prime ministers’ political careers. The third section presents some avenues for future research, including the potential for further theoretical and methodological improvement, followed by some concluding remarks.

AB - The concept of career, while ubiquitous in elite research, has hardly received any comprehensive analytical treatment in the study of political executives. This chapter will summarize and develop the basic theoretical and methodological approaches as well as empirical findings of studies investigating political careers of cabinet members in democratic parliamentary and semi-presidential systems at the national level. It is divided into three sections. The first provides a sketch of the basic research questions that have been raised (and discussed) in the field of executive careers studies over the past decades. The second part offers a systematic survey of the current state of the literature concerned with ministers’ and prime ministers’ political careers. The third section presents some avenues for future research, including the potential for further theoretical and methodological improvement, followed by some concluding remarks.

KW - Politics

KW - political recruitment

KW - professionalization

KW - selection and de-selection

KW - political performance

KW - leadership types

KW - social background

KW - political ambition

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UR - https://books.google.de/books?id=X4LxDwAAQBAJ&pg=PR9&hl=de&source=gbs_selected_pages&cad=2#v=onepage&q&f=false

U2 - 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198809296.013.11

DO - 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198809296.013.11

M3 - Chapter

SN - |978-0-19-880929-6

T3 - Oxford Handbooks

SP - 229

EP - 250

BT - The Oxford Handbook of Political Executives

A2 - Andeweg, Rudy B.

A2 - Elgie, Robert

A2 - Helms, Ludger

A2 - Kaarbo, Juliet

A2 - Müller-Rommel, Ferdinand

PB - Oxford University Press

CY - Oxford

ER -