Author (Person) | Belkacem, Kheira, Busby, Amy |
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Series Title | European Integration Online Papers (EIOP) |
Series Details | Vol.17 (2013), No.4 |
Publication Date | 2013 |
Content Type | Journal | Series | Blog |
The Lisbon Treaty further empowered the European Parliament (EP) and expanded its competence into new legislative areas. This has increased the workload of individual members of the European Parliament (MEPs). Empirical evidence suggests they can feel they are suffering from “information overload” due to the increased workload, highly technical nature of EU legislation, and volume of daily communications they receive. This paper explores the role of assistants in helping MEPs to cope with this information overloaded work environment with an exploratory, descriptive, and interdisciplinary approach. Ethnographic research (including observation in three MEP offices) has been conducted. |
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Source Link | http://eiop.or.at/eiop/index.html |
Countries / Regions | Europe |
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