Women And Men Parliamentarians: Positions And Dispositions
Women And Men Parliamentarians: Positions And Dispositions

Summary/Abstract: Parliamentarians are often viewed as a special social (socio-occupational) group or social layer with a lot of commonalties and shared characteristics. Differences in behavior and attitudes among its members are interpreted as random and not structurally rooted, or are understood as based on rational political strategic choice. This is an elitist approach, which claims that the modern democratic politicians (members of parliament) have similar (if not identical) understanding of their political roles, methods and forms of action, value orientations, etc. This elite principle is underlined in formal political science and political philosophy. Since James Meisel the idea of the elite homogeneity (closeness, consciousness, cohesion and coordination) is very widely used in assessing the parliamentarians' social status and action

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