Political Careers of Ministers and Prime Ministers

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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.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationThe Oxford Handbook of Political Executives
EditorsRudy B. Andeweg, Robert Elgie, Ludger Helms, Juliet Kaarbo, Ferdinand Müller-Rommel
Number of pages22
Place of PublicationOxford
PublisherOxford University Press
Publication date30.07.2020
Pages229-250
ISBN (print)|978-0-19-880929-6
ISBN (electronic)978-0-19-184676-2
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Publication statusPublished - 30.07.2020

    Research areas

  • Politics - political recruitment, professionalization, selection and de-selection, political performance, leadership types, social background, political ambition