The personalization of politics represents a growing research field in European studies. Yet, despite this, an institutional sphere of politics remained rather overlooked. This article aims to fill this gap, focusing on the only European Union (EU) institution with legitimacy derived directly from EU citizens: the European Parliament (EP). This study brings new insights about political behaviour within the EP and provides an original approach for studying (not only) EP politics. Based on quantitative content analysis we conclude that politics in the EP has become to some extent more personalized. However, despite the enhancement of (some) individuals' positions within the EP, collective actors have not lost their dominant positions. The personalization can be observed primarily in the field of parliamentary procedure. In agenda-setting and internal decision-making, personalization occurred as well. Any possibility of individual actors to affect the EP's internal organization remains very limited.

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谁在聚光灯下？欧洲议会中的政治个性化

政治的个性化代表了欧洲研究中一个不断发展的研究领域。然而，尽管如此，政治的制度领域仍然被忽视了。本文旨在填补这一空白，重点关注唯一直接来自欧盟公民的合法性欧盟（EU）机构：欧洲议会（EP）。这项研究带来了关于 EP 内部政治​​行为的新见解，并为研究（不仅）EP 政治提供了一种原创方法。基于定量内容分析，我们得出结论，EP 中的政治在某种程度上变得更加个性化。然而，尽管（某些）个人在 EP 中的地位有所提高，但集体行动者并没有失去他们的主导地位。个性化主要体现在议会程序领域。在议程设置和内部决策中，也出现了个性化。个别行为者影响 EP 内部组织的任何可能性仍然非常有限。