This chapter presents the theoretical framework for studying changes in the career experience and the career profiles of prime ministers that will be applied to the empirical analysis in Chaps. 4 and 5. Our basic argument states that the decline of party government has supported the emergence of populist, technocratic, and presidentializing trends in European democracies. These trends have been jointly conducive to decreasing levels of prime ministerial political experience and increasing levels of technical experience, as well as to shifting prime ministers’ career profiles from a ‘party-agent’ to a ‘party-principal’ type.
Change of Prime Ministers’ Careers: Theoretical Considerations / Müller-Rommel, Ferdinand; Vercesi, Michelangelo; Berz, Jan. - (2022), pp. 65-99. [10.1007/978-3-030-90891-1_3]
Change of Prime Ministers’ Careers: Theoretical Considerations
Vercesi, Michelangelo;
2022
Abstract
This chapter presents the theoretical framework for studying changes in the career experience and the career profiles of prime ministers that will be applied to the empirical analysis in Chaps. 4 and 5. Our basic argument states that the decline of party government has supported the emergence of populist, technocratic, and presidentializing trends in European democracies. These trends have been jointly conducive to decreasing levels of prime ministerial political experience and increasing levels of technical experience, as well as to shifting prime ministers’ career profiles from a ‘party-agent’ to a ‘party-principal’ type.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
