Campaign finance goes global

Foreign Policy

Volumn , Issue 118, 2000, Pages 74-84

  Bussey, Jane ^a  

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EID: 0039600679     PISSN: 00157228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1149671     Document Type: Article

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1. Although there is no single source that consistently tracks political campaign financing, spending, reforms, and scandals, the number of study groups, think tanks, and academics devoted to the subject is growing.
2. The International Foundation for Election Systems in Washington, D.C., publishes Elections Today, which covers different aspects of both domestic and international elections. In particular, see "Focus on Campaign Finance" (September 1999), which examines the state of current reforms in a number of countries.
3. The International Foundation for Election Systems in Washington, D.C., publishes Elections Today, which covers different aspects of both domestic and international elections. In particular, see "Focus on Campaign Finance" (September 1999), which examines the state of current reforms in a number of countries.
4. Arthur B. Gunlicks, ed., Campaign and Party Finance in North America and Western Europe (Boulder: Westview, 1993) and Herbert E. Alexander and Rei Shiratori, eds., Comparative Political Financing Among the Democracies (Boulder: Westview, 1994) both explore how different nations finance their campaigns and what episodes triggered reforms.
5. Arthur B. Gunlicks, ed., Campaign and Party Finance in North America and Western Europe (Boulder: Westview, 1993) and Herbert E. Alexander and Rei Shiratori, eds., Comparative Political Financing Among the Democracies (Boulder: Westview, 1994) both explore how different nations finance their campaigns and what episodes triggered reforms.
6. In 1993, the Center for a New Democracy and the Center for Responsive Politics published The World of Campaign Finance: A Reader's Guide to the Funding of International Elections, which is one of the most recent examinations of campaign financing around the world.
7. The Administration and Cost of Elections Project, a Web-based electronic publication, is an ongoing partnership of the United Nations, the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, and the International Foundation for Elections Systems to collect information on election spending around the world.
8. There are numerous sources pushing for U.S. campaign finance reforms that also track costs and examine the issues involved in questionable financing. The Web site of Public Campaign: Clean Money, Clean Elections, includes links to government agencies, news, activist groups, and think tanks that study the issue.
9. For links to these and other relevant Web sites, as well as a comprehensive index of related FOREIGN POLICY articles, access www.foreignpolicy.com.