Original scientific paper
FINANCING THE 2005 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS: THE ROLE OF REGULATIVE INSTITUTIONS
Zdravko Petak
orcid.org/0000-0001-5303-4990
; Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
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 offers the arguments concerning 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 financing. Nassmacher’s
approach to the regulation of political finances is used as
the analytical framework for the analysis of financing the 2005 presidential
campaign in Croatia. It is based on four options: the autonomy
option, the transparency option, the advocacy option and the diversified
regulation option. And finally, the paper includes a brief overview
of the funding budgets of the election campaigns of the 2005
presidential candidates.
Keywords
political finance; political funding regulation; public financing; financing election campaigns
Hrčak ID:
21009
URI
Publication date:
18.1.2006.
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