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Who Are the MEPs Making up Intergroups? A Sociopolitical Analysis

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This chapter explores the sociopolitical features of those Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) maintaining and participating in Intergroups. The statistical analysis of MEPs’ social configurations and political backgrounds reveals what kind of social resources (e.g. forms of capital) these parliamentarians have at their disposal when engaging in Intergroups, and which positions they occupy in the transnational field.

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Landorff, L. (2019). Who Are the MEPs Making up Intergroups? A Sociopolitical Analysis. In: Inside European Parliament Politics. Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04206-6_4

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