Political elites and representation
investigating the contemporary literature on professional politicians
Keywords:
Political representation, Professional politicians, Political science, Scientometrics, VOSviewerAbstract
Political representation is one of the major longstanding issues in Political Science, encompassing both voters and representative institutions and the agents who, in pluralist democracies, operate these institutions: professional politicians. This article maps the international literature on professional politicians. 560 articles published between 2015 and 2018 in 263 scientific journals indexed on the Web of Science database were analyzed. To understand the existing patterns within this literature, the bibliometric network analysis software VOSviewer was used. Two types of networks were analyzed: co-occurrence of keywords to identify recurring as well as most recent researched topics; and bibliographic coupling between documents to identify not only clusters in this literature, but also the most influential works. The results showed the endurance of classic issues in the field (intra-elite interactions, political parties, elections, congress), in addition to a new agenda addressing Political Communication. The most impactful work in this collection is on populist politicians and social media.
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