Monitoring election campaign finance
Published: 2004
Language: eng
Subjects: Campaign funds; Campaign management; Political corruption; Non-governmental organizations
Description: Monitoring Election Campaign Finance: A Handbook for NGOs is the most systematic effort to date to bring together and digest the range of campaign finance monitoring experience gained in recent years. Corrupt electoral campaign financing is damaging not only to the electoral process, but to democracy itself. Political finance regulations, intended to create a level playing field for electoral competition, are often inadequate. NGOs and activists across the world have begun to monitor campaign finance and advocate reforms in order to reduce the opportunities for corruption, with some promising results. But guidance on the best ways to monitor election campaign finance remains scarce. Monitoring Election Campaign Finance: A Handbook for NGOs provides a collection of good practices and tools to assist NGOs in designing and carrying out effective campaign finance monitoring and reform programs tailored to needs in their own countries.
Notes: Viewed on (Nov. 2, 2006).