Party Funding and Corruption

Sam Power (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

XVII, 251 Seiten

2020 | 1st ed. 2020
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-37579-9 (ISBN)

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This book systematically explores the relationship between party funding and corruption, and addresses fundamental concerns in the continued consideration of how democracy should function. The book analyses whether parties funded primarily through private donations are necessarily more corrupt than those funded by the state, and whether different types of corruption are evident in different funding regimes. Drawing on a comparison of Great Britain and Denmark, the author argues that levels of state subsidy are, in fact, unrelated to the type of corruption found. Subsidies are not a cure for corruption or, importantly, perceived corruption, so if they are to be introduced or sustained, this should be done for other reasons. Subsidies can, for example, be justified on grounds of public utility. Meanwhile, anti-corruption measures should focus on other regulations, but even then we should not expect such measures to impact on perceptions of corruption in the short term.

Sam Power is Lecturer in Politics at the University of Sussex, UK. Previously he was Associate Lecturer in Politics at the University of Exeter and Research Associate at the Sir Bernard Crick Centre for the Public Understanding of Politics, University of Sheffield. Sam has written extensively on issues related to the financing of politics in both academic and non-academic publications and regularly provides expert interviews and analyses on TV, on the radio, and online.

1. Introduction: party funding and corruption in advanced industrial democracies.- 2. The relationship between corruption and the funding of party competition.- 3. New institutionalism: towards a consolidated approach.- 4. Analysing corruption and party funding.- 5. Great Britain and Denmark: party funding regimes and party accounts.- 6. The institutional evolution of the party funding regime in Great Britain.- 7. Party funding and corruption in Great Britain.- 8. The institutional evolution of the Danish party funding regime.- 9. Party funding and corruption in Denmark.- 10. Conclusion: money, power and representation.

Erscheinungsdatum	05.04.2020
Reihe/Serie	Political Corruption and Governance
Zusatzinfo	XVII, 251 p. 23 illus.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	483 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
Schlagworte	anti-corruption measures • British political history • British politics • comparative politics • Corruption • corruption and democracy • corruption and governance • Danish political history • Democracy • funding regime • New Institutionalism • party funding • Party Politics • perceived corruption • Representative Democracy
ISBN-10	3-030-37579-X / 303037579X
ISBN-13	978-3-030-37579-9 / 9783030375799
Zustand	Neuware