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Money, Corruption, and Political Competition in Established and Emerging Democracies

Money, Corruption, and Political Competition in Established and Emerging Democracies

Mendilow, Jonathan

Hardcover

CriminologyGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 0739170759
ISBN13: 9780739170755
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: Sep 13 2012
Pages: 228
Weight: 1.50
Height: 1.20 Width: 5.90 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

Money, Corruption, and Competition in Established and Emerging Democracies, edited by Jonathan Mendilow, investigates the effectiveness of public subsidization of political competition as an anti-corruption mechanism. The exponential growth of advertising and polling techniques, the need to reach wider publics, and the inability to raise commensurate funds from ordinary members confront parties with ever-increasing difficulty to budget their apparatus. The use of contribution solicitation from corporations and wealthy individuals, drawing on the unpaid use of public services as sources or the imposition of contributions from government employees and contractors, and the sale of policies, concessions, or access to policy makers are commonly perceived as solutions corrosive to democratic governance. Such solutions shade into one another. Even where provider-consumer connections are only implied, donations by corporations and rich donors involve the desire to surmount the democratic constraints of one man one vote in order to gain disproportionate influence on the policy making process. An alternative resolution of the budgetary conundrum adopted by most democracies is the subsidization of political competition.

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