Campaign and Party Finance in North America and Western Europe

Preface -- Political Finance in Comparative Perspective -- Introduction -- Political Finance in North America -- The High Finance of American Politics: Campaign Spending and Reform in Federal Elections -- Campaign and Party Finance in the American States -- Financing Federal Politics in Canada in an Era of Reform -- Political Finance in Western Europe -- Great Britain: Twentieth Century Parties Operating Under Nineteenth Century Regulations -- The New French System of Political Finance -- Financing Parties and Elections in Small European Democracies: Austria and Sweden -- Campaign and Party Finance in Germany -- Problems of Party and Campaign Financing in Germany and the United States--Some Comparative Reflections -- Political Finance on the Research Agenda in Comparative Politics -- Comparing Party and Campaign Finance in Western Democracies