Research
MEPs’ attitudes in the 2014-19 European Parliament: Key Findings from the European...
Richard Whitaker, Simon Hix and Philipp Dreyer In 2015 we conducted a new survey of the Members of the European Parliament (MEPs). This survey builds directly on surveys of MEPs in the previous three terms of the European Parliament. Many questions have been repeated across…
Data from Bowler and Farrell’s 1990 survey of MEPs and list of...
Data are now available from Shaun Bowler and David Farrell’s survey of MEPs, conducted in 1990. Details can be found on the data page. We have also added a list of institutions hosting researchers who have requested the MEP survey data over time. This can be…
Understanding MEPs: Four Waves of the European Parliament Research Group MEP Survey...
This paper, forthcoming in European Union Politics, presents details of our survey of Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) conducted during 2015. This paper presents details of the 2015 MEP survey and uses the data to assess what explains MEPs’ attitudes to the question of whether…
Do MEPs Want to Keep Schlepping to Strasbourg? How MEP Travel Time...
In an era when less than half of EU citizens tend to trust the European Parliament (EP), and when declining numbers hold a positive image of the institution (according to the 2015 Parlemeter), the sight of Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) and their assistants…
New data released
We are pleased to announce that data from the fourth European Parliament Research Group MEP survey are now available to download. They are presented in Excel and Stata formats. In addition, files combining all four iterations of the survey (2000, 2006, 2010 and 2015) are…