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A Comparison of Governmental Political Party Funding In Three Countries

A Comparison of Governmental Political Party Funding in Three

Countries: The United States, Great Britain and France

Financing political party electoral campaigns has long been a subject of discussion and, as significantly, of controversy. Given the seminal role played by political parties in identifying, developing, and presenting candidates for electoral office at the local, regional and national levels in democratic countries, and further given the regulatory and oversight role of government in holding and vetting elections and their results, many countries have moved to create a role for government itself in providing some part of the financial resources needed for such activities (Pinto-Duschinsky and Postnikov 1). The issue is of special significance in the view of analysts such as Veronique Pujas and Martin Rhodes (41) in light of seemingly ongoing political scandals centered on campaign finance - scandals that have led some governments to take rigorous steps to reduce the potential for illegal campaign finance activities while simultaneously reducing the dependence of political parties and candidates on private finance sources.

Indeed, Pujas and Rhodes (42) argue that governments in many different countries recognize that political parties have a vested interest in raising funds for electoral campaigns and, more significantly, are likely to use legal loopholes to obtain needed funds when possible. Consequently, some governments are turning increasingly to the development of mechanisms for public financing of party activities in campaigns to reduce the potential for abuse. Nevertheless, given the escalation of such costs that seems to be typical in most venues, there are certainly some very real limits on government's capacity to fund political party activities. Further, since most countries are host to a number of competing political parties, finding an appropriate and "fair" formula for allocating public monies t...

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