Political Party Funding and Private Donations in Italy

Contents
Abbreviations
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Chapter 1: Introduction: The Informative Power of Private Political Financing
	References
Chapter 2: Challenges and Perspectives in the Study of Political Financing
	2.1 The Contemporary Party Model and Representational Dynamics
	2.2 Political Money: Why Does It Matter?
	2.3 Theoretical Perspectives on Private Money in Politics
	2.4 Linking Political Parties to Interest Groups
	References
Chapter 3: Private Political Financing: Between Regulations and In-depth Research
	3.1 Political Financing Regimes
	3.2 Private Political Financing in Comparative Perspective
	3.3 Research Hypothesis on Private Party Financing
	3.4 The Italian Dynamics on Political Financing
	References
Chapter 4: The Connective Capability of Italian Political Parties
	4.1 The Italian Research on Parties and Groups
	4.2 Theoretical Perspective on Party–Group Relations and Hypothesis
	4.3 Data Collection on the Private Funding of Political Parties
	4.4 Results
	4.5 Findings and Open Questions
	References
Chapter 5: The Donor’s Dilemma: External Donations Between Party Organisations and Candidates
	5.1 The Personalisation of Politics
	5.2 The Personalisation of Political Financing
	5.3 Hypothesis and Data
	5.4 Results
	5.5 Findings
	References
Chapter 6: The Financial Appeal of Political Parties: Looking for the Determinants of Donors’ Preferences
	6.1 The Language of Money
	6.2 Determinants of Private Funding
	6.3 Hypotheses and Data
	6.4 Results
	6.5 Concluding Remarks
	References
Chapter 7: Conclusion: Winter Is Coming and Political Parties Will Be Left Out in the Cold.
	References
Appendix A
	Appendix A.1: List of Variables Political Parties Data Set
		Number of Cases: 508 (Donations)
	Appendix A.2: List of Variables Political Candidates Data Set
		Number of Cases: 1,172 (Donations)
	Appendix A.3: List of Variables Aggregate Data Set (Political Parties and Candidates)
		Number of Cases: 35 (Political Parties)
Appendix B
	Appendix B.1: Interest System Represented Through Financial Donations to Political Parties in Different Election Years
	Appendix B.2: Interest System Represented Through Financial Donations to Candidates in Different Election Years
Index