Synopses & Reviews
This book explores the problems associated with regulating the funding of political parties and election campaigns in a timely assessment of a topic of great political controversy.
From interest in Obama's capacity to raise vast sums of money, to scandals that have rocked UK and Australian governments, party funding is a global issue, reflected in this text with case studies from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom, and the United States. Taking an interdisciplinary approach with leading scholars from politics, geography and law, this text addresses key themes: contributions, spending controls, the role of broadcasters and special interests, and the role of the state in funding political parties. With regulatory measures apparently unable to change the behaviour of parties, why have existing laws failed to satisfy the demands for reform, and what kind of laws are necessary to change the way political parties behave? The Funding of Political Parties: Where Now? brings fresh comparative material to inform this topical and intractable debate, and assesses the wider implications of continuing problems in political funding.
This book will be of interest to students and scholars of political science, political theory, policy and law.
Synopsis
Political funding is very topical issue that has received a lot of media attention globally; from interest in Obama's capacity to raise vast sums of money to scandals and controversies that have rocked UK and Australian governments.
This book explores the problems in regulating the funding of political parties and election campaigns in a comparative and international framework. It features case studies on in Australia, Canada, Germany, New Zealand, United Kingdom, and the United States and is organised around a number of key themes: the problem of contributions; the problem of spending controls; the problem of other actors; and the problem of state support.
Taking an interdisciplinary approach with scholars from law, political science, political geography and political sociology, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of political science, political theory and law. It will also be valuable to those working in this area of policy, whether in government, media or in think tanks.