Political finance in East Central Europe

Šimral, Vít

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“…As new democracies, market economies, and EU members they share similarities, but differ substantially regarding several decisive characteristics for interest group politics: election funding, lobbying regulations and economic coordination. Czechia exhibits a very weakly regulated market economy with privately funded elections and lax lobbying regulations (Šimral 2015 ; McGrath 2008 ). The Polish economy is also relatively weakly coordinated.…”

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Organized interests in post-communist policy-making: a new dataset for comparative research

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This article familiarizes readers with the international research project ‘The Missing Link: Exploring Organized Interests in Post-Communist Policy-Making’ (OrgIntCEE). The project team has focused on how populations of organized interests in the region have evolved, how they interact with state institutions as well as the group-specific characteristics driving access to policy-makers. The project also explores how Europeanization has affected post-communist interest groups as well as other factors contributing to their “coming-of-age.” We provide a comprehensive overview of the population ecology and survey datasets, while shedding light on the challenges during the data collection process. After a short overview of the project context and structure, we present some country-specific aggregated data on organizational densities and their political activity. We also reflect on potential uses for the data, before wrapping up the article with a self-critical assessment of what could have been done differently as a roadmap for future research.

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Organized interests in post-communist policy-making: a new dataset for comparative research

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“…Given these elements, Central and Eastern European states are generally the focus of a specific branch of party finance literature (e.g. Ikstens et al 2002; Simral 2014; Walecki 2007b). Analogously, we also excluded them from our analysis to enhance comparability between our cases.…”

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Spending Levels of Political Parties: An Explanation Based on a Multilevel Analysis

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Maddens²

2017

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This article examines the determinants of the annual overall spending levels of political parties from a comparative perspective. On the basis of a dataset with 1,317 observations from 99 parties in nine European parliamentary democracies, we illustrate that the spending levels of parties – calculated on the basis of Nassmacher’s index of political spending – have not systematically increased over the past decade. A multilevel analysis shows that, at the country level, spending levels are higher in countries with a longer tradition of public funding, a higher effective number of parties and a shorter democratic tradition. They are also higher in election years, but this effect is moderated when campaign spending limits apply. At the party level, spending levels increase with party strength and party age. Party ideology and government participation, on the other hand, do not have an effect.

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Political finance in East Central Europe

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Organized interests in post-communist policy-making: a new dataset for comparative research

Organized interests in post-communist policy-making: a new dataset for comparative research

Spending Levels of Political Parties: An Explanation Based on a Multilevel Analysis

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