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Money, Corruption, and Political Competition in Established and Emerging Democracies (Hardcover)
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Money, Corruption, and Political Competition in Established and Emerging Democracies (Hardcover)
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Money, Corruption, and Competition in Established and Emerging
Democracies, edited by Jonathan Mendilow, investigates the
effectiveness of public subsidization of political competition as
an anti-corruption mechanism. The exponential growth of advertising
and polling techniques, the need to reach wider publics, and the
inability to raise commensurate funds from ordinary members
confront parties with ever-increasing difficulty to budget their
apparatus. The use of contribution solicitation from corporations
and wealthy individuals, drawing on the unpaid use of public
services as sources or the imposition of "contributions" from
government employees and contractors, and the "sale" of policies,
concessions, or access to policy makers are commonly perceived as
solutions corrosive to democratic governance. Such solutions shade
into one another. Even where provider-consumer connections are only
implied, donations by corporations and rich donors involve the
desire to surmount the democratic constraints of "one man one vote"
in order to gain disproportionate influence on the policy making
process. An alternative resolution of the budgetary conundrum
adopted by most democracies is the subsidization of political
competition. This collection clarifies outcomes that are critical
to an assessment of the ramifications for modern democracy. What do
Western countries' experiences with public funding tell us about
unforeseen changes in the role of parties and their behavior that
are seen as additional costs of the public subsidization of
political competition? What can we learn from experiments with
subsidization in different contexts about possible pitfalls that
should be taken into account, especially when public subsidies are
adopted by new and emerging democracies? Answers to such questions
are critical if democratic principles and institutions that were
formed in an earlier age are to be adjusted to modern needs. In a
politically divisive climate, the contributors to this essential
collection provide thoughtful insight to some of the most important
public and economic policy questions facing our world today.
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