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    STUDIA EUROPAEA - Issue no. 3 / 2008  
         
  Article:   THE HOMOGENIZATION OF A PROFESSIONAL HABITUS: SELECTION OF FRENCH PARLIAMENTARIANS (1848-2007) / DIE HOMOGENISIERUNG EINES PROFESSIONELLEN HABITUS : DIE AUSWAHL DER FRANZÖSISCHER ABGEORDNETER (1848-2007).

Authors:  LAURENT GODMER.
 
       
         
  Abstract:  The selection of French MPs changed since the establishment of the masculine universal suffrage in 1848. The domination of “notables” (teachers, practitioners, lawyers…) had first replaced the initial overrepresentation of aristocrats, and had paved the way for a relative diversification of the parliamentary habitus in the inter-war period (e.g. with the presence of former workers within parliamentary parties of the left). However, recent evolutions during the Fifth Republic (from the 1st legislature elected in 1958 to the 13th legislature elected in 2007) show a relatively homogenised professional habitus especially because of the growing importance of the cultural capital in parliamentary recruitment.

Key words: homogenisation, parliament, elections, representation, France
 
         
     
         
         
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