Checkbook elections?: political finance in comparative perspective

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Publication details: New York Oxford University Press 2016Description: xvii, 329 pISBN:

9780190603618

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324.78 C4

Summary: 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). https://global.oup.com/academic/product/checkbook-elections-9780190603618?q=Checkbook%20elections?:%20political%20finance%20in%20comparative%20perspective&lang=en&cc=in#

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Table of Contents

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

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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