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 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. Ad
finally, the paper offers a brief overview of the funds used by the
presidential candidates in the 2005 election campaign.
Keywords
political finance; political funding regulation; public financing; financing election campaigns
Hrčak ID:
20750
URI
Publication date:
12.6.2006.
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