Political Careers of Ministers and Prime Ministers
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The Oxford Handbook of Political Executives. ed. / Rudy B. Andeweg; Robert Elgie; Ludger Helms; Juliet Kaarbo; Ferdinand Müller-Rommel. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. p. 229-250 (Oxford Handbooks), (Oxford handbooks online / Political Science).
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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
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85112404474&partnerID=8YFLogxK
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 -