Parliamentary Elites in Transition

Manina Kakepaki is a Principal Researcher at the National Centre for Social Research (EKKE)- Institute of Political Research, Greece. Fani Kountouri is Assistant Professor of Political Science-Political Communication at the Department of Political Science and History, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Athina, Greece.

• 1. Greek Parliamentary elites in transition (1989-2019).- 2. Gender, representation and the politics of exclusion. Or, who represents, who is represented?.- 3. Politics and profession: continuities and discontinuities in the occupational composition of the Greek parliamentary elite.- 4. From Media to Politics: Journalists in the Greek Parliament.- 5. Young conservatives, media personalities or old-school elites? The many faces of New Democracy MPs across time.- 6. From Hegemony to Pasokification. Socialist MP’s in transition.- 7. Composition and Role of Parliamentary Elites as an Indicator of Party Transformation: The Case of SYRIZA.- 8. Mapping of the Extreme right MPs: From LAOS to Greek Solution.- 9. Candidates’ personal preference votes and changes in parliamentary representation.- 10. The emergence of “technocracy" in Greek ministerial elites.- 11. Make or Break? A Comparison of Parliamentary Representation in Cyprus and Greece in the Background of the Economic Crisis.- 12. Threegenerations of parliamentary elites. A proposed typology.