European Political Parties and Party Finance Reform: Funding Democracy?

This book provides a comprehensive overview of party funding in Europe based on research on political finance, EU party democracy and Euroscepticism. Consequently, it will be valuable for scholars working on Eurosceptic parties, the European Parliament, EU decision-making, (European) party politics and political finance. Furthermore, the book will be of interest to practitioners working in the European Parliament, for European political parties and civil-society organizations dealing with political finance and/or European politics. The book will show that public funding for European political parties was established to improve European democracy. It will explain why increasing subsidies were made available to European political parties and why considerable differences exist between Eurosceptic and pro-European parties regarding the use of EU funding. Furthermore, the book examines how party finance reform at the EU level has been at the center of party competition, by demonstrating how the funding rules were strategically changed to benefit some European parties over others, and to keep new parties from entering the funding system.

• | Author: Wouter Wolfs
• | Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• | Publication Date: May 08, 2022
• | Number of Pages: 321 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 303095174X
• | ISBN-13: 9783030951740