Parliamentary representatives in Europe, 1848-2000  legislative recruitment and careers in eleven European countries 
edited by Heinrich Best and Maurizio Cotta. 
 - Oxford [England]  New York  Oxford University Press  2000. 
 - xii, 549 p.  ill.  25 cm. 
 - Comparative European politics .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Elite transformation and modes of representation since the mid-nineteenth century : some theoretical considerations / Heinrich Best and Maurizio Cotta -- The incremental transformation of the Danish legislative elite : the party system as prime mover / Mogens N. Pedersen -- From political amateur to professional politician and expert representative : parliamentary recruitment in Finland since 1863 / Ilkka Ruostetsaari -- Detours to modernity : long-term trends of parliamentary recruitment in republican France 1848-1999 / Heinrich Best and Daniel Gaxie -- Challenges, failures, and final success : the winding path of German parliamentary leadership groups towards a structurally integrated elite 1848-1999 / Heinrich Best, Christopher Hausmann, and Karl Schmitt -- Belated professionalization of parliamentary elites : Hungary 1848-1999 / Gabriella Ilonszki -- Parliamentary elite transformations along the discontinuous road of democratization : Italy 1861-1999 / Maurizio Cotta, Alfio Mastropaolo, and Luca Verzichelli -- Representatives of the Dutch people : the smooth transformation of the parliamentary elite in a consociational democracy 1849-1998 / Ineke Secker -- Democratization and parliamentary elite recruitment in Norway 1848-1996 / Kjell A. Eliassen and Marit Sjøvaag Marino -- Political recruitment and elite transformation in modern Portugal 1870-1999 : the late arrival of mass representation / José M. Magone -- Spanish diputados : from the 1876 restoration to consolidated democracy / Juan Linz, Pilar Gangas and Miguel Jerez Mir -- Continuity and change : legislative recruitment in the United Kingdom 1868-1999 / Michael Rush and Valerie Cromwell -- Between professionalization and democratization : a synoptic view on the making of the European representative / Maurizio Cotta and Heinrich Best. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0198297939 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>00031354 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBA1-01204 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Legislative bodies--History.--Europe<br/>Representative government and representation--History--Europe--20th century.<br/>Representative government and representation--History--Europe--19th century.<br/>Comparative government<br/>Legislators--History.--Europe
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Europe--Politics and government.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>JN8  / .P37 2000 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>328.094  / P2528