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Financiranje predsjedničkih izbora 2005.: uloga regulativnih institucija
Financing The 2005 PresedentialElections: The ROle of Regulative Institutions

Author(s): Zdravko Petak
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Fakultet političkih znanosti u Zagrebu
Keywords: political finance; political funding regulation; public financing; financing election campaigns;

Summary/Abstract: The paper looks into the institutional features of regulating the 2005 campaign for the election of the president of the Republic of Croatia. The role of the regulative institutions is analyzed within a broader context of the regulation of political funding in Croatia. The paper offers the arguments concerning the non-transparency of the system of party and election funding in Croatia based on a comparison of the principles of good practice in political financing. Nassmacher’s approach to the regulation of political finances is used as the analytical framework for the analysis of financing the 2005 presidential campaign in Croatia. It is based on four options: the autonomy option, the transparency option, the advocacy option and the diversified regulation option. And finally, the paper includes a brief overview of the funding budgets of the election campaigns of the 2005 presidential candidates.

  • Issue Year: XLII/2005
  • Issue No: 01
  • Page Range: 37-48
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Croatian