You Take the High Road and I'll Take the Low Road: 4 Ways how Political Leaders find into Politics

You take the high road and I‘ll take the low road Andreas Jungherr Phd Student - Bamberg, University andreas.jungherr@gmail.com

Andreas Jungherr (2009) ‘You Take the High Road and I’ll Take the Low Road: 4 Ways how Political Leaders ﬁnd into Politics’ Paper presented at the 5th ECPR General Conference: European Consortium for Political Research, Potsdam, Germany on 10 September 2009.

In late 2007 I conducted a study into the concept of political leadership as seen by young politicians

Search for crucible experiences in their autobiographical narratives

Instead I found patterns in their recollections of their recruitment into political parties

Recruitment through a friend or family member

Recruitment through a local event or local issue

Recruitment through a global event or issue

The Element of Chance

Recruitment through a friend or family member

Total of 9 out of 19

Recruitment through friends: Based on shared activities

Recruitment through family: Party politics is seen as natural evolution

Recruitment through a local event or local issue

Recruitment through a global event or issue

The Element of Chance

Please bear in mind:

The study is qualitative and based on a very small sample

The study was done looking for something completely different

The study was done by someone with a different research background and area of expertiece

So procede with caution

A. Jungherr (2009) ‘You Take the High Road and I’ll Take the Low Road: 4 Ways how Political Leaders ﬁnd into Politics’, Paper presented at the 5th ECPR General Conference: European Consortium for Political Research, Potsdam, Germany on 10 - 12 September 2009.

You Take the High Road and I'll Take the Low Road: 4 Ways how Political Leaders find into Politics

by Andreas Jungherr on Sep 10, 2009

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