Inside European Parliament Politics Informality, Information and Intergroups /

• Main Author: Landorff, Laura (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology
• Subjects: European Union.; Political science.; Political sociology.; Political communication.; Political leadership.; Elections.; European Union Politics.; Governance and Government.; Political Sociology.; Political Communication.; Political Leadership.; Electoral Politics.

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 extensi...

Table of Contents:

• 1 Introduction
• 2 Opening up institutional black boxes: The European Parliament from a Sociological Perspective
• 3 Intergroups in the European Parliament: Institutionalisation and Regulation
• 4 Who are the MEPs Making up Intergroups? A Socio-Political Analysis
• 5 Finding Allies: The Intergroup as Bridging Social Capital
• 6 Seeking Information: The Intergroup as Informational Capital
• 7 Conversion and Mobilisation of Political Capital
• 8 Conclusion.