Blue collars striking the red flag: formal and descriptive representation of the working class in the Belgian House of Representatives 1946-2007
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- Bram Wauters (UGent)
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- Abstract
- In this article the effect of ideological changes in political parties (catch-all process) and in their recruitment patterns (professionalization) on the party affiliation of working-class politicians is investigated in Belgium, both for Members of Parliament (MPs) and for candidates. The disappearance of the link between the working class and social-democratic parties due to enlargement of the parties' focus coincides with a decline in formal and descriptive representatives of that class in such parties. This could be problematic for the substantive representation of working-class interests. The relatively high number of working-class representatives in extreme right parties do not necessarily defend all working-class interests.
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- SUBSTANTIVE REPRESENTATION, PARTY DEMOCRACY, LEGISLATURES, PARLIAMENT, ETHNICITY, CONTAGION, GENDER, MODELS, QUOTAS, WOMEN
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-2988822
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- Wauters, Bram. “Blue Collars Striking the Red Flag: Formal and Descriptive Representation of the Working Class in the Belgian House of Representatives 1946-2007.” LABOR HISTORY, vol. 53, no. 2, 2012, pp. 225–43, doi:10.1080/0023656X.2012.679398.
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- Wauters, B. (2012). Blue collars striking the red flag: formal and descriptive representation of the working class in the Belgian House of Representatives 1946-2007. LABOR HISTORY, 53(2), 225–243. https://doi.org/10.1080/0023656X.2012.679398
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- Wauters, Bram. 2012. “Blue Collars Striking the Red Flag: Formal and Descriptive Representation of the Working Class in the Belgian House of Representatives 1946-2007.” LABOR HISTORY 53 (2): 225–43. https://doi.org/10.1080/0023656X.2012.679398.
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- Wauters, Bram. 2012. “Blue Collars Striking the Red Flag: Formal and Descriptive Representation of the Working Class in the Belgian House of Representatives 1946-2007.” LABOR HISTORY 53 (2): 225–243. doi:10.1080/0023656X.2012.679398.
- Vancouver
- 1.Wauters B. Blue collars striking the red flag: formal and descriptive representation of the working class in the Belgian House of Representatives 1946-2007. LABOR HISTORY. 2012;53(2):225–43.
- IEEE
- [1]B. Wauters, “Blue collars striking the red flag: formal and descriptive representation of the working class in the Belgian House of Representatives 1946-2007,” LABOR HISTORY, vol. 53, no. 2, pp. 225–243, 2012.
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abstract = {{In this article the effect of ideological changes in political parties (catch-all process) and in their recruitment patterns (professionalization) on the party affiliation of working-class politicians is investigated in Belgium, both for Members of Parliament (MPs) and for candidates. The disappearance of the link between the working class and social-democratic parties due to enlargement of the parties' focus coincides with a decline in formal and descriptive representatives of that class in such parties. This could be problematic for the substantive representation of working-class interests. The relatively high number of working-class representatives in extreme right parties do not necessarily defend all working-class interests.}},
author = {{Wauters, Bram}},
issn = {{0023-656X}},
journal = {{LABOR HISTORY}},
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language = {{eng}},
number = {{2}},
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title = {{Blue collars striking the red flag: formal and descriptive representation of the working class in the Belgian House of Representatives 1946-2007}},
url = {{http://doi.org/10.1080/0023656X.2012.679398}},
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