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Professionalization of Legislatures: Long-Term Change in Political Recruitment in Denmark and Norway

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2009

Kjell A. Eliassen  and
Mogens N. Pedersen
Kjell A. Eliassen
Affiliation:
University of Aarhus and Odense University
Mogens N. Pedersen
Affiliation:
University of Aarhus and Odense University
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Everywhere a disparity can be observed between the socioeconomic composition of the electorate and the composition of the elected, representative body, which acts as a legislature for the society. Microcosm and macro- cosm are never identical; the legislature never mirrors the population at large. This is a universal generalization. It holds true for all representative systems at all times. It is furthermore true that the character of this disparity differs cross-nationally and over time: each legislature is unique in this sense.

Type
Varieties of Modernization
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Comparative Studies in Society and History , Volume 20 , Issue 2 , April 1978 , pp. 286 - 318
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Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 1978

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