Part I The conceptual terrain and parliamentary coalescence. Part II Career types, membership profiles, careers, Strasbourg and Westminster. Part III European career pathways? The parliamentary hierarchy, the assignment processes, the consequences. Part IV Changing attitudes to institutional reform. Part V Overall conclusions. Annexes: Committee assignments, 1979-1992, of the 30 "survivors"; voting records of the 30 "survivors" on the 14 resolutions.