Gerontocracy, in its narrowest sense, refers to political systems ruled by elderly people,
whether de jure or de facto. Although formal gerontocratic rules are progressively …

Many parties have seen declines in working-class legislators and increases in professional
career politicians. I argue that career politicians are more likely to adopt policies for strategic …

One of the main supply‐side explanations for women's underrepresentation in politics is the
gender gap in nascent political ambition. While this has been examined in terms of electoral …

Partisan conflicts have been frequently analysed in comparative political science research.
Yet little is known about the dimensions of political conflict at the local level in multi-level …

Candidate selection is one of the most relevant tasks of parties and has important
consequences for various aspects of political representation. While previous research has …

Ministerial portfolios that promise high status, broad public visibility, and extensive financial
and personnel resources continue to be men's domains. In this article, we shed light on …

To capture elites, we must map out the organizational landscape through which they pass
during their careers. This organizational landscape moulds the character of elites, tells us …

Thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the public and scientific debate about the state of
unification has regained considerable momentum. The debate stresses in particular the …

Parliamentary debates are an important stage in the process of designing new policies and
play an important role for discussing the policy reactions to exogenous events like the …

A crucial aspect of elite dominance in modern democracies concerns the degree to which
different political elites share similar career paths and shifts between different elite positions …