Professionalism Index

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Bowen et al. tries to examine the rationale behind equating or measuring professionalism with an index. Professionalism means the skill, good judgment, and polite behavior that is expected from a person who is trained to do a job well. While operationalization is a process of defining the measurement of a phenomenon that is not directly, measurable though its existence is indicated by other phenomena. So from these definitions we could understand that legislative professionalism plays a prominent role in state politics research spanning for over a decades.
Despite the attention paid to its causes and consequences, research has largely set aside questions about professionalism’s conceptualization and operationalization. Usually measuring it