Financing the 2005 Presidential Elections: The Role of Regulative Institutions
Financing the 2005 Presidential Elections: The Role of Regulative Institutions

Summary/Abstract: The paper looks into the institutional features of regulating the 2005 campaign for the election of the president of the Republic of Croatia. The role of the regulative institutions is analyzed within a broader context of the regulation of political funding in Croatia. The paper deals with the non-transparency of the system of party and election funding in Croatia based on a comparison of the principles of good practice in political funding. Nassmacher’s approach to the regulation of political finance is used as the analytical framework for the analysis of financing the 2005 presidential campaign in Croatia. It s based on four options: the autonomy option, the transparency option, the advocacy option, and the diversified regulation option.

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