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Inside European Parliament Politics: Informality, Information and Intergroups

Inside European Parliament Politics: Informality, Information and Intergroups

Landorff, Laura

Hardcover

Series: Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology

General Political ScienceGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 3030042057
ISBN13: 9783030042059
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Mar 5 2019
Pages: 258
Weight: 1.06
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
The study of the informal dimension of EU politics is more important than ever in order to understand how the EU system works. This book presents an innovative and original study on informal cross-party, cross-committee groupings in the European Parliament, so-called Intergroups. Building on extensive fieldwork, including semi-structured interviews and observations, this study shows how parliamentarians of the seventh European Parliament (2009-2014) gain a variety of social resources, such as social, informational and political capital, in Intergroups, which they subsequently mobilise to foster opinion-formation across political groups and parliamentary committees, and to shape the EP's agenda and policy outcomes. Drawing on an interdisciplinary, Bourdieusian-inspired framework, this book makes a valuable contribution to sociological approaches in European integration studies. Shedding new light on the informal dimension of parliamentary practices and politics, this book appeals to EPas well as EU scholars, to students and practitioners of EU politics, and civil society.

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