Financing Referendum Campaigns

by Gilland Lutz, Karin; Hug, Simon

• ISBN13: 9780230579330
• ISBN10: 0230579337
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-12-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

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.

Author Biography

KARIN GILLAND LUTZ is Publications Manager at the Centre for Comparative and International Studies, ETH Zürich, Switzerland.

SIMON HUG is in the Department of Political Science at the University of Geneva, Switzerland.

Table of Contents

List of Tables	p. vii
List of Figures	p. viii
Notes on the Contributors	p. ix
Preface	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
Campaign Spending and Ballot Measures	p. 9
Regulating Campaign Finance in Canadian Referendums and Initiatives	p. 23
US States	p. 39
Campaign Financing in Danish Referendums	p. 62
Financing Referendums and Initiatives in the Baltic States	p. 81
The Financing of Referendum Campaigns in France	p. 107
Referendums and Spending in Ireland	p. 116
Financing Referendum Campaigns in Italy: How Abrogative Referendum Can Regulate Electoral Financing	p. 131
Financing Referendum Campaigns in Spain	p. 145
Referendum Campaign Regulations in Switzerland	p. 165
Sledgehammers and Nuts? Regulating Referendums in the UK	p. 180
Referendum Campaign Regulations in Europe and Latin America	p. 201
Conclusion	p. 229
Index	p. 234
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