Posłowie debiutanci w Sejmie VII, VIII i IX kadencji. Przyczynek do analizy zjawiska wymiany partyjnych elit
Debut Members of Parliament in the Sejm of 7th, 8th and 9th term. The contribution for the analysis of the phenomenon of the party circulation of elite

Summary/Abstract: Parliamentary representation of political parties is nowadaysbecoming an important field of activity of every grouping. Membersof Parliament, following the standards of party charters, become anelement of party elite, holding the official positions in collegiate organs.Personal changes in the parliament then mean changes in the party elite.The goal of the article is defining the scale of the phenomenon of debutMembers of Parliament in the years of 2011, 2015 and 2019.The research question which the author was faced with is the questionabout the scale of the phenomenon of debut Members of Parliamentand its consequences for the demographic structure of the Polish Sejmand the particular party representations in the parliament, defined asparty elites.Detailed questions concern: the importance of parliamentary representativesin contemporary political groupings; defining whether thescale of the phenomenon in 2015 was significantly different from theelection results from 2011 and 2019.The established hypotheses assume that: the important of parliamentaryrepresentation in contemporary parties is on a constant growth onthe formal level and also within the political praxis, and consequently,Members of Parliament can be called party elites. Another hypothesis assumes that the phenomenon of debut MPs has stood out quantitativelyin the analyzed period of time, nevertheless, it has not changed thedemographic structure of the parliament dramatically, concerning theother two analyzed terms.The period of the analysis concerns the three parliamentary electionsin 2011, 2015 and 2019, which allowed to pick up on the possibletendency of the phenomenon.

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