Necessary Asymmetry or Undemocratic Imbalance? Professionalisation in the Recruitment and Career of Belgian Local Councillors

Verhelst, Tom; Reynaert, Herwig; Steyvers, Kristof

doi:10.1080/03003930.2012.747956

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“…In contrast, local officeholders (local councillors) arguably have electoralist incentives and value selective incentives, yet the extent to which they do so varies greatly. Verhelst and others differentiate between laymen and professional local councillors (Verhelst et al, 2013: 275). For laymen local councillors, their service in local council is the first and the last political career step, denying intention of climbing up the ladder within the party or state hierarchy.…”

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Intra-party conflict at grassroots: Party-councillor ideological congruence in Croatia

Kukec

2019

Party Politics

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Party-councillor ideological congruence reinforces party linkages with local voters and credibility of councillors as future party elites. This contribution examines the role of career motivations and selective incentives, as well as party branch characteristics in forming party-councillor congruence. The empirical analysis draws on the original survey of Croatian local councillors. The results find councillors with progressive ambition and those exposed to intra-branch competition reporting higher levels of ideological congruence with their parties, while no effect was found for holders of upper level party positions. Branch power has the opposite effect from expected. Party grassroots shape ideologically congruent professional politicians, but this function is challenged by shrinking supply of candidates.

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Intra-party conflict at grassroots: Party-councillor ideological congruence in Croatia

Kukec

2019

Party Politics

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“…Further, that, parameters such as social values, attitudes and interests would be key indicators in identifying the worthwhile professional politician (Culic, 2006). Additionally, knowledge, ethics, ethical codes, rights and fluency in political language are essential attributes in a system of good political professionalization (Corbett, 2015; Vehelst et al , 2013; Jones, 2008). Though in the developed countries, the general public has, generally speaking, realized the importance of the educational background and intellectual capacity of the candidates in electing their political leaders (Pedersen, 1978), the ground situation is worse in most of the developing countries.…”

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Develop the recruitment criteria for professionalisation of politicians: a focus to group study

Ukwatta

2017

JGR

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Purpose The purpose of this study is to identify the fundamental elements necessary for formulating criteria to be used when recruiting politicians into the Sri Lankan political system with a view to professionalization. By means of a thorough examination of political practice issues, the paper focuses on the possibility of introducing the concept of political professionalization and endeavors to determine the prerequisite conditions needed to resolve or minimize those issues. Design/methodology/approach A total of 27 respondents: academics, clergy and journalists were purposively selected for this study and they were divided into three groups to enable data collection through focus group discussions. A thematic analysis method was used to analyze the data. Findings The main political practice problems were bribery and corruption, the misuse of state resources by politicians, the involvement of family in politics, and unscrupulous and unethical political campaigning. The majority of respondents cited greed for political power, low levels of education and an inadequate understanding of the parliamentary process as the leading factors which cause problems to arise in politics as practiced in Sri Lanka. The analysis revealed three main themes: “knowledge”, “skills” and “values”. Respondents recommended policy initiatives for political recruitment. Originality/value The findings suggested that the professionalization of political practice should be promoted by introducing knowledge C skills and values as criteria for political recruitment. And it also suggested that the introduction of professional political practice methods is vitally necessary to reduce political practice issues in the current political scenario of Sri Lanka.

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“…Further, the parameters such as social values, attitudes and interests are key indicators to be a professional politician [9]. Additionally, knowledge, ethics, ethical codes, rights and political language are essential attributes in a system of good political professionalization [13,22,23].…”

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Exploring Criteria for Political Professionalization in Sri Lanka

Wijayantha¹

2017

J Pol Sci Pub Aff

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This paper examines the attitudes of selected power groups about exploring the political professionalization criteria in Sri Lanka. Through a thorough examination of issues of political practice, it focuses the possibility to make space to introduce the concept of political professionalization and prerequisite to resolve or minimize those issues. A total of twenty-seven academics, clergy and journalists were participated in three focus group discussion. Thematic analysis method was used to analyze the data. Through this process, it was revealed three main themes: 'knowledge', 'skills', 'values' and recommends policies for political recruitments. The findings suggested that professionalization political practices should be promoted by introducing knowledge, values and skills as criteria for consideration in political recruitments. And also it is suggested that introduction of professional political practice methods is essential to reduce in political practice issues in the current political scenario of Sri Lanka.

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Necessary Asymmetry or Undemocratic Imbalance? Professionalisation in the Recruitment and Career of Belgian Local Councillors

Cited by 4 publications

References 32 publications

Intra-party conflict at grassroots: Party-councillor ideological congruence in Croatia

Intra-party conflict at grassroots: Party-councillor ideological congruence in Croatia

Develop the recruitment criteria for professionalisation of politicians: a focus to group study

Exploring Criteria for Political Professionalization in Sri Lanka

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