Party Funding and Campaign Financing in International Perspective (Hardcover)

1 Introduction Part I 'Light Touch' Regulation and its Discontents 2 The Regulation of Campaign Funding in New Zealand: Practices, Problems and Prospects for Change Andrew Geddis Part II 'Big Bang' Regulation of a Private Funding Regime 3 Regulation of Political Funding under the United Kingdom's Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000 - And Beyond? Navraj Ghaleigh 4 The Disclosure of Political Donations in Britain - New Regulation, Old Problems K D Ewing 5 Access to the Airwaves and Equality: The Case against Media Political Advertising on the Broadcast Media Jacob Rowbottom Part III From State Regulation to State Funding 6 Political Finance Law and Electoral Funding in Australia Graeme Orr 7 The Growing Importance of Public Funding in Japan Akiko Ejima 8 Financing Parties at the Grass - Roots Level: The Quebec Experience Louis Massicotte Part IV Regulation and Judicial Review 9 Throwing in the Towel: The Constitutional Morass of Campaign Finance Samuel Issacharoff 10 Soft Money, Congress, and the Supreme Court Richard Briffault 11 The Law of American Party Finance Nathaniel Persily Part V Regulation and Judicial Review: Divergent Paths 12 The Supreme Court of Canada's Political Theory and the Constitutionality of the Political Finance Regime Colin Feasby 13 Elections, Democracy, and Free Speech: More at Stake than an Unfettered Right to Advertise Janet L Hiebert Part VI Starting from Scratch 14 Political Parties in the European Union: Towards a European Party Statute? Stephen Day and Jo Shaw