Inside European Parliament Politics
ISBN:
978-3-03-004205-9
Auflage:
1st ed. 2019
Verlag:
Springer International Publishing
Land des Verlags:
Schweiz
Erscheinungsdatum:
05.03.2019
Reihe:
Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology
Format:
Hardcover
Seitenanzahl:
258
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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.
Schlagwörter
regulation
European Parliament
political knowledge
transnational politics
social interactions
structural constructivism
Members of the European Parliament (MEPs)
transnational political field
social resources
socio-political background
Intergroups
political information
informational capital
mobilisation of social resources
legislative organisation
opinion-formation
Biografische Anmerkung
Laura Landorff is Assistant Professor in European Studies at the Department of Culture and Global Studies at the University of Aalborg, Denmark. Her research focuses on the European Parliament, informal politics, political sociology and European integration.
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Erscheinungsjahr:
2023
