1st Edition

Money Rules: Parties, Oligarchs and Funding Regulation in Post-Soviet Countries

Edited By Fernando Casal Bértoa, Levan Tsutskiridze Copyright 2024
226 Pages 42 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

226 Pages 42 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

226 Pages 42 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the regulation of party finance in post-Soviet countries by leading academics and practitioners in the field. Through a series of cutting-edge chapters, using both original quantitative and qualitative data, it systematically sheds theoretical and empirical light on the way party funding regulation has evolved since the fall of the Soviet Union in... Read more

Introduction: Does Money Rule Post-Soviet Party Politics?

Fernando Casal Bértoa

1. Against The Mainstream? The Impact of Party Regulation in Political Competition in Moldova

Sergiu Lipcean, In Collaboration with Elena Prohnitchi

2. Dominance By Default: Political Finance and The Political Party System in Mongolia

Dagvyn Enkhtsetseg and Altankhuyagyn Bat-Orgil

3. Regulation of Party Finance in Russia and its Implications for The Party System

Valeria Tonhäuser and Alexander Kynev

4. Money For Nothing ? The Trends and Patterns of Political Finance Regulation and Party System Development in Georgia

Bakur Kvashilava and Levan Tsutskuridze

5. Fighting For Dominance: Party Funding Regulation and Party System Development in Armenia

Hamazasp Danielyan, Harout Manougian and Fernando Casal Bértoa

6. The Illusion Of Transparency: Party Finance Regulation in Ukraine and its Impact on The Party System

Oleksii Sydorchuk and Bohdan Bernatskyi

7. Kyrgyz Parties In Quicksand: When the Only Constant is Weak Party Regulation

Anastasia Griadasova and Emilbek Dzhuraev

8. Autocrats, Oligarchs, and Party Politics in Kazakhstan

Dimash Alzhanov and Nurseit Niyazbekov

Conclusions And Recommendations: Party Funding Regulation and Legislative Reform

Levan Tsutskuridze

Biography

Fernando Casal Bértoa is Associate Professor in Comparative Politics at the University of Nottingham.

Levan Tsutskiridze is the Executive Director of EECMD (East European Centre for Multiparty Democracy.