Party Funding And Campaign Financing in International Perspective (Columbia-London Law)

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Title Page......Page 3
Title verso......Page 4
Introduction to the Columbia-London Law Series......Page 5
Preface......Page 7
Table of Contents......Page 9
List of Contributors......Page 11
The Core Dilemmas......Page 13
Laissez Faire and Transparency......Page 14
Supply Side and Demand Side Options......Page 15
Public or Private Funding?......Page 16
Shaping Regulatory Choices......Page 18
The Importance of Supervision and Enforcement......Page 19
The Regulatory Trajectory......Page 20
Conclusion......Page 22
Part I: 'Light Touch' Regulation and its Discontents......Page 23
Introduction......Page 25
New Zealand’s System of Government and Campaign Funding Regulation......Page 27
Problems with New Zealand’s System of Campaign Funding Regulation—and Proposed Solutions......Page 37
Part II: 'Big Bang' Regulation of a Private Funding Regime......Page 45
Introduction......Page 47
The Case for Reform......Page 48
Pressure Points and PPERA......Page 54
Conclusion......Page 66
Introduction......Page 69
The Road from Secrecy to Transparency......Page 70
Reporting and Disclosure: The New Statutory Regime......Page 71
‘Sleaze’: The Continuing Problem of Political Donations......Page 74
The Labour Party’s Response......Page 78
Donation Trends: The Labour Party......Page 81
Donation Trends: Opposition Parties......Page 83
Conclusion......Page 86
Introduction......Page 89
Political Advertising and Article 10......Page 91
Political Ends and Objects......Page 93
Do Political Advertisements Generate an Advantage?......Page 98
Why the Broadcast Media?......Page 101
Political Advertising as a Check on Inequality......Page 103
The Future of Political Broadcasting......Page 107
Conclusion......Page 108
Part III: From State Regulation to State Funding......Page 109
The Spectre of Money Politics......Page 111
The Current Legal Regime......Page 114
Reform Debates......Page 121
Conclusion—The Limits of Regulation......Page 128
Introduction......Page 135
The History of Legal Control of Political Funding and Election Finance in Japan......Page 137
The Current Regulatory System of Political Finance: An Evaluation of the Political Reform of 1994......Page 145
Conclusions: Revisiting Transparency and Disclosure......Page 161
Origins and Contents of the Québec System for Regulating Party Funding and Election Finance......Page 165
How Well the Current Regulatory System is Working......Page 174
Possible Solutions......Page 188
Part IV: Regulation and Judicial Review......Page 193
9. Throwing in the Towel: The Constitutional Morass of Campaign Finance......Page 195
Rights, Deference and Process......Page 197
Conclusion......Page 202
Introduction......Page 203
The Rise of Soft Money......Page 204
BCRA’s Restrictions on Political Party Soft Money......Page 206
McConnell and Soft Money......Page 207
McConnell and the Expansion of the Idea of‘ Corruption’......Page 212
Conclusion......Page 219
11. The Law of American Party Finance......Page 225
Where We are and How We Got Here: The Law of American Party Finance......Page 226
Who and What is the Party......Page 237
Does Campaign Finance Reform Weaken American Political Parties and How Would We Know?......Page 244
Conclusion......Page 250
Part V: Regulation and Judicial Review: Divergent Paths......Page 253
Introduction......Page 255
A Primer on Charter Doctrine and its Application to the Democratic Process......Page 257
The Supreme Court of Canada’s Political Theory......Page 260
The Egalitarian Model and the Constitutionality of Public Funding and the Political Broadcasting Regime......Page 265
Conclusion: The Egalitarian Model and Competition......Page 278
13. Elections, Democracy and Free Speech: More at Stake than an Unfettered Right to Advertise......Page 281
Regulating Election Costs......Page 283
Constitutional Challenges to Regulating Independent Expenditures......Page 284
Judicial Treatment of Restrictionson Independent Expenditures......Page 288
Conclusion......Page 299
Part VI: Starting from Scratch......Page 303
Introduction......Page 305
The Evolution of the Euro-Parties in the Post-Maastricht Era......Page 307
The Initiative to Develop the Legal Basis for a European Party Statute......Page 310
The 2003 Regulation on European Political Parties: Negotiation, Adoption and Implementation......Page 317
The Implementation of Regulation 2004/2003......Page 324
Conclusions: Pathways and Crossroads......Page 329
Index......Page 333