6. Seeking Information: The Intergroup as Informational Capital

This chapter demonstrates how Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) acquire informational capital through Intergroups. The chapter offers an innovative conceptual modification of the Bourdieusian concept of informational capital that is composed of expert, organisational and political knowledge. In this way, the chapter provides a more comprehensive and holistic conceptualisation of not only information but also knowledge going beyond the terms of policy information and political information used in theories of legislative organisation.