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Parliamentary Affairs Advance Access originally published online on September 18, 2007
Parliamentary Affairs 2007 60(4):716-720; doi:10.1093/pa/gsm044
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© The Author [2007]. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Hansard Society for Parliamentary Government; all rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Party Funding and Campaign Financing in International Perspective

Ron Johnston

K.D. Ewing and S. Issacharoff (eds), Party Funding and Campaign Financing in International Perspective, Hart Publishing, 2006, xi + 330 pp., £40, ISBN 1841135704.

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Issues relating to party funding and expenditure on election campaigns arise with increasing regularity as a topic of public concern, not least in the UK. This comprises three major specific issues, clearly set out in Hiebert's chapter in the book under review:

  1. Is it equitable that the wealthy are better able to seek influence over an election outcome because they can either contribute more to the campaigns of specific parties and candidates or undertake their own independent campaigns alongside those of the registered parties and candidates? Think, for example, of the Swift Boat Veterans campaign against John Kerry in the 2004 US Presidential election and the 1998 Bowman case in the UK, which latter challenged legislation preventing individuals spending more than £5 in an attempt to influence the electorate—in this case by raising the issue of candidates' positions on abortion. Or is any limitation on the amounts that can be . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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