Бій із Голіафом: Реформа партійних фінансів в Україні
Fighting Goliath: The Reform of Party Finance in Ukraine

Author(s): Oleksii Sydorchuk
Subject(s): Civil Society, Government/Political systems, Post-Communist Transformation
Published by: EECMD - Eastern European Centre for Multiparty Democracy
Keywords: Party Finances;
Summary/Abstract: This current policy paper is the first in a series which the Netherlands Institute for Multiparty Democracy will make available to the stakeholders of Ukrainian democracy: political parties, NGOs, international organizations and students of democratization. It addresses one of the most salient aspects of political debate of the recent, not only in Ukraine, but elsewhere too: that of the relation between money and politics. The author of the paper has taken a thorough look at existing shortcomings of the current system and practice of political finance and has come up with a number of recommendations. We hope they will be taken up for consideration by political actors in Ukraine. We also hope that it will be a useful addition to the debate on how to strengthen democracy in Ukraine and ensure that all democratic political forces, regardless of their funding levels, will have equal opportunities to win votes based on their policy ideas, in a free, competitive and transparent manner, and that they remain accountable to those who voted for them. I would like to thank Ilko Kucheriv Democratic Initiatives Foundation, for putting its valuable expertise in the production of this paper, and to the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, for providing comments and valuable peer review to this work. With this series of policy papers, NIMD aims to further promote an informed debate about the changes that are needed to make it happen. (BI-LINGUAL EDITION)

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