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Title: | How Political Parties Finance Electoral Campaigning in Southern Africa |
Author: | Lodge, Tom |
Year: | 2001 |
Periodical: | Journal of African Elections |
Volume: | 1 |
Issue: | 1 |
Pages: | 53-60 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Southern Africa |
Subjects: | elections political parties financing Politics and Government Economics and Trade |
Abstract: | In southern Africa political parties fund their electioneering from five main sources. These are, in order of importance, their own governments, foreign donors, business, the political party's own business operations, and finally, and probably the least important proportionately, their membership and mass support. No SADC country compels political parties to conform to rigorous disclosure laws and any limits on campaigning expenditure are exceptional. Assessing how parties spend their money has to involve informed speculation rather than precise accounting. Whether disparities in levels of expenditure are reflected in electoral outcomes is a contested issue. Notes, ref. [ASC Leiden abstract] |