TY - BOOK ID - 50157701 TI - Becoming Europeans? : attitudes, behaviour, and socialization in the European Parliament PY - 2005 SN - 1282268260 9786612268267 0191536350 1423788788 PB - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Legislators KW - European Parliament. KW - Lawmakers KW - Legislatures, Members of KW - Members of legislatures KW - Members of parliaments KW - Parliaments, Members of KW - Statesmen KW - European Communities. Parliament UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:50157701 AB - An almost universal point of agreement in contemporary political science is that 'institutions matter'. But the governing institutions of the European Union are widely presumed to matter more than most. A commonplace assumption about the EU is that those working within European institutions are subject to a pervasive tendency to become socialized into progressively more pro-integration attitudes and behaviours. The assumption has been integral to many accounts of Europeanintegration, and is also central to how scholars study individual EU institutions. However, the theoretical and empirical ad ER -