TY - BOOK ID - 64879026 TI - Party Funding and Corruption PY - 2020 SN - 3030375803 303037579X 9783030375799 PB - Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, DB - UniCat KW - Campaign funds. KW - Assessments, Political KW - Campaign contributions KW - Campaign expenditures KW - Campaign finance KW - Election contributions KW - Elections KW - Political assessments KW - Political campaigns KW - Political parties KW - Campaign funds KW - Finance KW - Democracy. KW - Europe—Politics and government. KW - Political science. KW - Comparative politics. KW - Great Britain—Politics and government. KW - Political theory. KW - European Politics. KW - Governance and Government. KW - Comparative Politics. KW - British Politics. KW - Political Theory. KW - Administration KW - Civil government KW - Commonwealth, The KW - Government KW - Political theory KW - Political thought KW - Politics KW - Science, Political KW - Social sciences KW - State, The KW - Comparative political systems KW - Comparative politics KW - Government, Comparative KW - Political systems, Comparative KW - Political science KW - Self-government KW - Equality KW - Representative government and representation KW - Republics KW - Campaign funds - Great Britain KW - Campaign funds - Denmark KW - Political corruption - Great Britain KW - Political corruption - Denmark KW - Political corruption UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:64879026 AB - 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 Corruption Analysis 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. . ER -