Overview
- Provides original and comprehensive, yet nuanced data on the meaning and motives that MEPs attach to their Intergroup activities
- Enriches our knowledge on the life of the EP beyond descriptive accounts of its formal organs and position within the EU’s institutional set-up
- Makes a valuable contribution to a strand within EU studies calling for a return of sociological approaches in European integration studies
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology (PSEPS)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
Keywords
- European Parliament
- Intergroups
- Members of the European Parliament (MEPs)
- political sociology
- structural constructivism
- transnational politics
- transnational political field
- entrepreneurs
- regulation
- institutionalisation
- social resources
- socio-political background
- social interactions
- political information
- informational capital
- mobilisation of social resources
- legislative organisation
- reputation
- opinion-formation
- political knowledge
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Reviews
“Inside European Parliament Politics makes an important contribution to research on EU politics as it provides the most systematic, comprehensive, in-depth and theoretically sophisticated analysis of Intergroups in the European Parliament to date. It certainly contributes to filling a gap on this peculiar informal mechanism that is still being largely neglected by EU analysts. The author gathered impressive empirical evidence and convincingly explains in which manifold ways Intergroups matter for MEP’s.” (Professor Ulrike Liebert, Jean Monnet Chair of European Politics, University of Bremen, Germany)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Inside European Parliament Politics
Book Subtitle: Informality, Information and Intergroups
Authors: Laura Landorff
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04206-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-04205-9Published: 05 March 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-04206-6Published: 18 February 2019
Series ISSN: 2946-6016
Series E-ISSN: 2946-6024
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 258
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: European Union Politics, Governance and Government, Political Sociology, Political Communication, Political Leadership, Electoral Politics