Abstract
The aim of this paper is to be determined the trends of democratization of the Macedonian parliamentary elite in seven parliamentary terms from 1991 to 2011. The democratization of parliamentary elites is defined as process of giving opportunities to more social group to enter to the parliament. The method of detection of democratization trends is applied by using indicators that measure a few aspects of transformation of parliamentary elites as the number of political parties in the parliament, the percent of female members of parliament, the percent of MPs representatives of ethnic minorities in parliament, the percent of elected young MPs under the age of 40, and the percent of MPs with maximum repeated parliamentary mandates. The results of investigation showed trends in growth of democratization process of the Macedonian parliamentary elite in seven mandates. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n6s1p341
Highlights
Legislatures act as main channels of recruitment of future political leaders who create state policies
About the members of parliament (MPs), they are people that are elected on regular parliamentary elections usually for a period of four years
The two key concepts used in this theoretical model are the process of democratization and professionalization of parliamentary elites
Summary
Legislatures act as main channels of recruitment of future political leaders who create state policies. Recruitment process for members of parliament is limitation of potential candidates for parliamentary seat. In parliamentary democracies ministers in government are recruited from the parliamentary seats In this relation, political parties at local level have very long-term influence in election of future political leaders. About the members of parliament (MPs), they are people that are elected on regular parliamentary elections usually for a period of four years (it can be more or less of four years, it depends of duration of parliamentary term in every country). These elected people, members of parliament could be considered as elite, because they control political functions, hold legislative political power and dominate the allocation of values
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