Money is essential to the functioning of electoral politics, yet regulating its appropriate use raises complex and controversial challenges in countries around the world. Both long-established democracies and emerging economies have been continually plagued by problems of financial malfeasance, graft, corruption, and cronyism. To throw new light on these important challenges, this book addresses three related questions: (1) what types of public policies are commonly used in attempts to regulate the role of money in politics?, (2) what triggers landmark finance reforms? and, (3) above all, what works, what fails, and why - when countries implement reforms? Checkbook Elections? presents an original theory for understanding policies regulating political finance, reflecting the degree to which laws are laissez-faire or guided by state intervention. Each chapter is written by an area specialist and collectively cover long-established democracies as well as hybrid regimes, affluent post-industrial societies (Sweden, the United States, Britain, and Japan), major emerging economies (Russia, Brazil, and South Africa) and developing societies (India and Indonesia).
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List of Figures
List of Tables
Preface and Acknowledgments
About the Contributors
INTRODUCTION
1. Understanding Political Finance Reform
Pippa Norris and Andrea Abel van Es
CASE STUDIES
2. Brazil
Bruno Speck
3. Britain
Justin Fisher
4. India
Eswaran Sridharan and Milan Vaishnav
5. Indonesia
Marcus Mietzner
6. Japan
Matthew Carlson
7. Russia
Grigorii V. Golosov
8. South Africa
Richard Calland
9. Sweden
Magnus Ohman
10. United States
Richard Briffault
COMPARATIVE EVIDENCE
11. Why Regulate?
Andrea Abel van Es
12. Does Regulation Work?
Pippa Norris and Andrea Abel van Es
CONCLUSIONS
13. The Lessons for Political Finance Reform
Pippa Norris and Andrea Abel van Es
Technical and Statistical Appendices
Select Bibliography
Index
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Selling point: Brings forth new concepts, theories and evidence to illuminate issues of political finance
Selling point: Contributors draw upon a wide range of cases in established democracies such as Britain, Sweden, and the United States, as well as diverse regimes such as South Africa, India, Indonesia and Russia
Selling point: Presents cutting-edge research in an accessible manner
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Pippa Norris is the Maguire Lecturer in Comparative Politics at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and Laureate and Professor of Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney. She is Director of the Electoral Integrity Project.
Andrea Abel van Es is the Senior Research Fellow for the Money, Politics and Transparency project at the Electoral Integrity Project in the Department of Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney.
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Selling point: Brings forth new concepts, theories and evidence to illuminate issues of political finance
Selling point: Contributors draw upon a wide range of cases in established democracies such as Britain, Sweden, and the United States, as well as diverse regimes such as South Africa, India, Indonesia and Russia
Selling point: Presents cutting-edge research in an accessible manner
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780190603618
Publisert
2016
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press Inc
Vekt
490 gr
Høyde
235 mm
Bredde
157 mm
Dybde
20 mm
Aldersnivå
U, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
352