Financing referendum campaigns
By: edited by Karin Gilland Lutz and Simon Hug
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Basingstoke [England]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 241
ISBN-13: 9780230579330
Description: "Critics of referendums often lament that big money may buy success at the ballot box. But spending by interest groups may also be informative for citizens. This can only happen, however, if the financing of referendum campaigns is regulated. This book offers an overview of these regulations and presents research on their effects"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Campaign spending and ballot measures / Thomas Stratmann; title: Regulating campaign finance in Canadian referendums and initiatives / Richard Johnston; title: US States / Daniel A. Smith; title: Campaign financing in Danish referendums / Sara Binzer Hobolt; title: Financing referendums and initiatives in the Baltic states / Daunis Auers, Jüri Ruus and Algis Krupavicius; title: The financing of referendum campaigns in France / Francis Hamon; title: Referendums and spending in Ireland / Karin Gilland Lutz; title: Financing referendum campaigns in Italy : how abrogative referendum can regulate electoral financing / Roland Ricci; title: Financing referendum campaigns in Spain / Carlos Closa Montero and Flavia Carbonell Bellolio; title: Referendum campaign regulations in Switzerland / Uwe Serdült; title: Sledgehammers and nuts? regulating referendums in the UK / Navraj Singh Ghaleigh; title: Referendum campaign regulations in Europe and Latin America / Tobias Zellweger, Uwe Serdült and Irène Renfer.