Ruling class

Political class generally refers to the social elite of professional politicians ( colloquially known as the caste of politicians or politicians guild ), in a critical way, the politicians obsessed with gaining power and self-centered social class. The term was first used in the late 19th century by the Italian political scientist Gaetano Mosca.

The German political scientist Klaus von Beyme founded 1993, a resurgence of the political class by the abandonment of the ideology of political parties, their approach to the type of political parties, the approximation of the social background of MPs in addition to income differences and the resultant formation of a layer of professional politicians. The former German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt counts next to politicians, political journalists political class.

The elite sociology certifies the political elite that for her policy has not only become the acquisition profession, but that they increasingly sequesters himself from the people, no longer renewed by social mobility and thereby removed from those interests that it claims to represent. On the political elite of a country also has a role that privileged group who regularly exercised by political and economic peak positions of political power and thus much decides on general social issues and social resources controlled.

France

In France, political class has long been a popular political label, also motivated by the fact that the management personnel of the parties and ministries almost exclusively recruited from elite colleges.

Switzerland

In Switzerland, the political class became a political buzzword, with the Swiss People's Party ( SVP) " up there in Bern" criticized and wanted to portray themselves as the true representatives of the people. In contrast, the voters of the SVP are much less traditional and conservative set as the party line. Conversely wants the electorate of the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland ( SP) significantly " less government " than the party leadership.