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Klappentext This book concerns the financing of politics, political parties, candidates and elections in eleven countries. Zusammenfassung This book concerns the financing of politics! political parties! candidates and elections in eleven countries. It contains case studies of individual countries! various country-by-country comparisons! and a conceptual framework enabling the reader to understand the context of financial sources and implications of funding sources. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Money and politics: rethinking a conceptual framework Herbert E. Alexander; 2. Trends in British political funding, 1979-84 Michael Pinto-Duschinsky; 3. Canadian election expense legislation, 1963-85: a critical appraisal or was the effort worth it? Khayyamzev Paltiel; 4. Public funding of elections in Australia Ernest A. Chaples; 5. American presidential elections since public funding, 1976-84 Herbert E. Alexander; 6. Party financing in Israel: experience and experimentation, 1968-85 Jonathan Mendilow; 7. Public financing of parties in Italy Gian Franco Ciaurro; 8. Financing of Spanish political parties Pilar Del Castillo; 9. The "modesty" of Dutch party finance Ruud Koole; 10. The new German system of party funding: the Presidential committee report of 1983 and its realization Hans-Peter Schneider; 11. Structure and impact of public subsidies to political parties in Europe: the examples of Austria, Italy, Sweden and West Germany Karl-Heinz Nassmacher.
