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CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Willy Beauvallet, Sébastien Michon
    L’institutionnalisation inachevée du Parlement européen Hétérogénéité nationale, spécialisation du recrutement et autonomisation
    in Politix - Revue des sciences sociales du politique , n°89 ,  2010 ,  147-172
    We study the institutionalization of the European Parliament using a quantitative analysis based on biographies of elected members of the European Parliament over the period 2004 to 2009. The data underline the emerging of political work specialists able to ensure the direction and control of the parliamentary space. The relative unattractiveness of the European Parliament compare to the national political space favored the recruitment of actors less endowed with legitimate resources. For a growing number of actors, the European Parliament represents a professionalization and the opportunity to acquire political capital. These sociopolitical transformations, along with institutional and juridical evolutions, favor the constitution of a « core » of specialists, able to acquire the space’s specific resources and to direct it.
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