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The Politics of Party Funding - State Funding to Political Parties and Party Competition in Western Europe (Hardcover, New)
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The Politics of Party Funding - State Funding to Political Parties and Party Competition in Western Europe (Hardcover, New)
Series: Comparative Politics
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Recently there has been a convergence of party funding regimes
across many states of Western Europe. The driving force behind this
process has been the introduction of state funding to political
parties. This book subsequently asks why state funding to political
parties has been introduced in ever more countries and yet there
still remain some places where it has only been introduced to a
decidedly limited degree? It argues that a consensus of the
relevant parties is a prerequisite for the introduction of state
funding, thereby assuming a nexus between particular forms of party
competition and the outcome of party funding reforms. The author
shows how the introduction of state funding is more likely to occur
in countries where parties have a high number of institutional veto
points at their disposal, where both policy- and office-seeking
play a more important role in parties' strategic preferences than
vote-seeking, and where the discourse on political corruption
identifies state funding as a remedy against corrupt practices.
These assumptions are confirmed for four cases: Germany, Sweden,
the UK, and France. He argues that two constellations of
independent variables facilitate the introduction or reform of
state subsidies. On the one hand, in political systems that provide
parties with a considerable number of veto points, vote-seeking
generally plays a minor role in decisions about party funding. On
the other hand parties can reach a consensus independently of the
institutional environment and their strategic preferences by
engaging in the discourse on political corruption. Decreasing
levels of ideological polarisation prior to the introduction of
state funding imply that causal mechanisms similar to the ones
identified in the four case studies are at work in established
democracies in Western Europe more generally. Thus, the book
represents a first step towards a theory which explains differences
and similarities in party funding regimes.
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