Prior to July 2009, salaries of the members of the European Parliament were paid by their home country and there were … each member of the Parliament is pegged to 38.5% of a European Court judge's salary, paid by the EU. This created an … are independent of attendance to the Parliament. Using detailed information on each parliamentarian of the European …

Prior to July 2009, salaries of the members of the European Parliament were paid by their home country and there were … each member of the Parliament is pegged to 38.5% of a European Court judge's salary, paid by the EU. This created an … are independent of attendance to the Parliament. Using detailed information on each parliamentarian of the European …

corruption, increased citizen trust in parliament, and better quality of law-making. Others argue that disclosure rules endanger … composition of parliament empirically. We find that the introduction of disclosure rules is usually not accompanied by a … significant shift in the proportion of lawyers and businesspeople in parliament (direct effect). In general, we did not find …