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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law [MPECCoL]

Remuneration of Legislative Body Members

Bastian Michel

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Encyclopedia entries
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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law [MPECCoL]
Article last updated:
June 2023

From: Oxford Constitutions (http://oxcon.ouplaw.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2023. All Rights Reserved.date: 11 December 2024

Subject(s):
Independent agencies — Legislative rules and restrictions — Members of legislative body — Representative democracy — Checks and balances — Right to participate in elections

General Editors: Rainer Grote, Frauke Lachenmann, Rüdiger Wolfrum
Managing Editor: Martina Mantovani

1 Membership in a legislative assembly comes with financial remuneration, paid by the state, in most of today’s constitutional systems (legislative bodies; legislative body members). Payments fall into two broad categories: compensation for costs incurred in the exercise of the mandate, and an income plus other forms of living sustenance like pension rights and health insurance. 2 In liberal representative democracies, remuneration of the members of legislative assemblies serves the constitutional aim of keeping the political processes and institutions accessible...
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