Financing of political parties

Ciucianu Ana Maria
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Ciucianu Ana Maria: Ovidius University of Constanta

Ars Aequi, 2012, vol. 2, issue 1, 5-17

Abstract: Political parties are an essential element of any democracy, guaranteeing the plurality of opinions in public. In society, they meet a mediating role citizens and institutions, contributes to aggregating interests and their transformation into public policy choices and engage in organizing election campaigns and public outreach to citizens. Current activities require financial resources to ensure growing and logistics facilities. Election campaigns are increasingly expensive, these are determined by movements, the presence of media, preparation of studies and surveys, spending propaganda, et al The conclusion that emerges is that in democratic states, "politics is money." Financing of political parties, in all its aspects, namely procuring financial resources allocation, spending and control their use is determined by the peculiarities of work carried out by this group of entities.

Keywords: Political parties; democracy; political parties (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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