Sources of funding for electoral campaigns (Analysis of 2012 elections campaign financing in Serbia) Cover Image

Izvori finansiranja izbornih kampanja. Analiza finansiranja izbornih kampanja 2012. u Srbiji
Sources of funding for electoral campaigns (Analysis of 2012 elections campaign financing in Serbia)

Author(s): Milica S. Joković Pantelić
Subject(s): Government/Political systems, Electoral systems, Present Times (2010 - today), Fiscal Politics / Budgeting
Published by: Fakultet političkih nauka Univerziteta u Beogradu
Keywords: Elections; financing; public sources; private sources; campaign; monitoring; oversight; control; sanctions;

Summary/Abstract: Sources of political party financing are two fold: public and private. Public sources come from the state budget and are legally defined. Private sources are: physical and legal persons, membership fee, income from property, promotional activities and publishing, loans, etc. Reasons of possible abuse in political party financing. Serbian legal regulation of political party financing, especially during electoral campaigns. Data on expenditures from public and private sources for Serbia’s 2012 parliamentary and presidential elections. The ratio of income and expenditure in parliamentary and presidential elections. Breaking of law established for parliamentary and presidential elections 2012. Identified mistakes, with proposals for correcting, based on research and reports of electoral campaign financing (normative, monitoring, incompleteness and sanctioning).

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 10
  • Page Range: 83-95
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Serbian