Renewal and permanency of parliamentary elites from a gender perspective. Methodological trends of measure and applications. 63rd Political Studes Association Annual International Conference. Bernabé Aldeguer Cerdá University of Alicante (Spain)
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[email protected] Renewal and permanency of parliamentary elites from a gender perspective. Methodological trends of measure and applications. 63 rd Political Studies Association Annual International Conference The Party’s Over? 25 – 27 March 2013 City Hall Cardiff --- Panel details: Gender and politics 1: Representation Beyond Westminster: Diversity, Agency and Quotas. Chair: Lisa Harrison. Session 7 – Tuesday 26 March 2013. Please do not cite without permission of the author Bernabé Aldeguer Cerdá (University of Alicante – Spain). Página 1 Renewal and permanency of parliamentary elites from a gender perspective. Methodological trends of measure and applications. 63rd Political Studes Association Annual International Conference. Abstract. Renewal and permanency of parliamentary elites from a gender perspective. Methodological trends of measure and applications. Bernabé Aldeguer Cerdá. One of the main variables used in the study of political elites has been the analysis related to their patterns of renewal, renewal and permanency along the time. We can interpret the representative democracies as a result of gradual or total processes in the renewal of ruling class. A low level of renewal is one of the keys to describe and explain the profile of political elites an also as an indicator of professionalization, considering factors of heritage and permanency, as well as, following to Pareto, patterns of renewal. The paper takes into account the last methodological approaches included in those academic researches and reports that have measured and evaluated, from a gender perspective, the comparative patterns of renewal, renewal and permanence in parliamentary elites.