Funding Democratization.

Cover -- Half Title -- Dedication -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Tables -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: money and politics in emerging democracies -- Democracy, democratization and political competition -- Costing democracy -- Money for democratization, and the issue of corruption -- Funding regimes -- Funding democratization then and now -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 2 The funding of political parties in North America: the early years -- The idea of corruption in relation to party funding -- United States: introduction and background -- The 'myth' of nineteenth-century party funding in the United States -- Contrasts with political funding in the late twentieth century -- The demand for funds- the nature of party competition -- The supply of funds from American society -- The system of 'self-generated' funding -- Patronage and the late-nineteenth-century Canadian state -- Problems of party funding in North America -- Notes -- 3 Financial uncertainties of party formation and consolidation in Britain, Germany and Italy: the early years in theoretical perspective -- From personal wealth to patronage -- From large donors to a multitude of small subscriptions -- The diffusion of the mass party technique -- Expanding the range of financial sources -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 4 Party funding in a new democracy: Spain -- Improvisation during the transition -- The effects of funding arrangements -- The need for reform -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 5 Chile's new democracy: political funding and economic transformation -- Sources of party funding -- Party funding before military rule and during the transition -- Political campaigning in the new democracy -- Government proposals to regulate electoral campaign finance -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 6 Funding parties and elections in Brazil -- The institutional background.

Party and campaign funding -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 7 Party funding in post-communist east-central Europe -- Party accounts: the balance-sheet -- Party funding and the state -- State reimbursement of election campaign expenses -- Deputies' salaries and expenses -- Funding party clubs -- Disputations of the communist inheritance -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 8 The iceberg of Russian political finance -- The institutional framework and the resources of the political game -- The iceberg of political finance: the above-water and under-water elements -- Can elections be bought? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 9 Building democracy on the basis of capitalism: towards an east Asian model of party funding -- Japan: the early postwar years -- Taiwan and South Korea -- Taiwan -- South Korea -- Japanese reform proposals and the 1996 general election -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 10 Political party funding in southern Africa -- Decolonization, independence and the funding of political parties in southern Africa -- Funding democracy in southern Africa from 1989 -- The funding of redemocratization in Zambia, Lesothoand Malawi -- Funding democratic transition in Namibia and Mozambique -- Party funding in the new South Africa -- The ANC -- The NP -- The DP -- The Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) -- The Freedom Front -- The PAC -- The ACDP -- Other political actors -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 11 Conclusion -- Reporting party income or expenditures -- Prohibitions on particular sources of funds -- Restrictions on certain expenditures that parties can make -- A ban on purchasing particular services and/ or a requirement that they be provided free of charge -- Public funding of parties -- Notes -- Index.

Democracy is a fine political system, but an expensive economic venture.

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