Businessmen in parliaments of Central and Eastern Europe: a quantitative Analysis
Tuesday, March 12, 2013 —
2:00PM - 4:00PM
Munk School of Global Affairs
1 Devonshire Place
The presentation focuses on parliamentary recruitment and careers of businessmen in 14 Eastern and Central European countries. More specifically, socio-demographic profile, prior political experience (also during the Soviet period), and parliamentary career duration of businessmen will be scrutinized in a longitudinal perspective. A specific emphasis of this presentation will be done on the Russian and Ukrainian national parliaments (the State Duma and the Verkhovna Rada).
Elena Semenova is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Jena, Germany. Her recent articles appeared in Comparative Sociology, Historical Social Research, and East European Politics and Societies
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