Handbook of Political Party Funding

Mendilow, Jonathan; Phélippeau, Éric

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“…These include the degree to which the party controls resources and the corresponding scope for personalization 68 of messages, 72 how they respond to changes in the voter base, 73 how they allocate portfolios within the party, 74 the nature of the tasks individual legislators undertake, 75 the strength of party discipline, 76 and where their funding comes from. 77 Recent research has also sought to move away from the party as the main unit of analysis in order to bring individual leaders and legislators, and their agency, back into the picture. 78 This has occasioned a turn towards informal politics alongside formal institutional structures to understand how parties function and how they adopt specific strategies and policy platforms.…”

Section: Party Organisation and Political Entrepreneursmentioning

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The party scene: new directions for political party research in foreign policy analysis

Hofmann¹,

Martill²

2021

International Affairs

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Research on political parties and foreign policy has grown in recent years in response to disciplinary and real-world changes. But party research still bears the imprint of earlier scepticism about the role of parties. The result is scholarship which is disaggregated, which avoids difficult cases for parties, and which has focused more on showing that parties matter relative to structural accounts of foreign policy-making. This article takes stock of recent research on political parties, party politics and their role in foreign policy-making. We argue that it is time for party research not only to embrace the question of whether parties matter but also how, when and where they matter. This requires a move away from most-likely cases and the realist foil towards an embrace of the complexity of party positions. Building on International Relations, comparative politics and foreign policy analysis scholarship, we suggest four avenues deserving of greater scholarly focus: 1) ideological multidimensionality; 2) parties as organizations and the role of entrepreneurs; 3) parties as transnational foreign policy actors; and 4) the interaction between parties and the changing global order. We propose how these literatures can help identify new research questions, contribute to theory development and help define scope conditions. This will hopefully help scholars establish benchmarks for judging the efficacy of parties in foreign policy-making.

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The party scene: new directions for political party research in foreign policy analysis

Hofmann¹,

Martill²

2021

International Affairs

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“…The question of party financing has attracted increasing attention in recent times. The publication of The Handbook of Political Party Funding (Mendilow and Phélippeau 2018) is representative of this trend. Richard Katz and Peter Mair's (1992) Data Handbook on Party Organizations represents a point of reference in the studies in this field, not only for the wealth of information collected and standardized for the first time, but also for the theoretical considerations concerning the impact on political parties of the growing flow of money.…”

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The End of Cornucopia: Party Financing after the Great Recession

Ignazi

Fiorelli

2021

Gov. & oppos.

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This article investigates the dimension and evolution of the financing of political parties. It focuses on 28 parties in the five major European countries (Germany, France, UK, Italy, Spain), analysing the parties’ budgets from 2002 to 2016. The article's assessment shows that the availability of funds increased until the beginning of the Great Recession (2008), and then decreased, mainly due to a decline in public support for parties. Diminished state generosity has led parties to look for different sources of financing: the article shows the proportion of self-funding resources in terms of membership fees and private donations that has sustained the parties’ finances. Finally the article presents a model that helps to explain the shrinking of parties’ income by including parties’ ideological alignment, electoral outcome, presence in government and share of public financing, and countries’ public spending and GDP level, to investigate the plausible causes of the reduction of parties’ income.

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“…Moreover, since by the end of the twentieth century most States had already developed more or less generous systems of public subsidies to political parties, it became only natural that the recipients of such moneys were accountable to the tax payer on their use. Hence, academic research on the topic is relatively young, with most studies dating from the 2000s [1][2][3][4][5] and mainly focusing on empirical case studies rather than comparative scholarship [6]. In point of fact, comparative research on political financing owes much of its development in recent years to the work undertaken by international organizations.…”

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“…This is not very different from many other countries in the region that show the strong connection between social exclusion, violence and the pervasiveness of organized crime. 6 Private interests of a small, but markedly powerful, elite have always prevailed over the public good, and hence, have perpetuated extreme inequality, poverty and social exclusion, 5 The methodology applied by GRECO combines theory and practice by contrasting material fonts with in situ interviews where governmental and non-governmental sources are consulted. A standard evaluation questionnaire guides all discussions and the analytical work which follows thereafter.…”

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Breaking democracy: illegal political finance and organized crime in Guatemala

Sanz-Levia¹,

Sánchez

2020

Crime Law Soc Change

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Guatemala has been struggling in its road towards consolidated democracy since the mid-80s when its first democratic government was elected. Internal conflict is no rare occurrence in a country which civil war ended relatively recently, in 1996, and lasted over 30 years. Today, while Guatemala's economy is the largest of Central America, inequality, poverty and social exclusionparticularly of indigenous people, are rife. Organized crime is also a prevalent concern and an imminent threat to the rule of law. Criminal investigations have evidenced how public institutions and policies are compromised by a rotten political finance system with pervasive links with drug trafficking structures. This paper (1) analyzes the legislative framework (and its implementation) for political financing in Guatemala; (2) identifies how organized crime uses those gaps to filter dirty money in politics, and, more generally, in public life; and (3) pinpoints priority areas for sustainable reform.

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Handbook of Political Party Funding

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The party scene: new directions for political party research in foreign policy analysis

The party scene: new directions for political party research in foreign policy analysis

The End of Cornucopia: Party Financing after the Great Recession

Breaking democracy: illegal political finance and organized crime in Guatemala

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