ABSTRACT
This chapter assesses how much the world of political finance regulations has changed in the course of a decade since the publication of Michael Pinto-Duschinsky's classic work. It analyzes the data collected by International IDEA on party income, expenditure, public funding, reporting, and sanctions. Political party income bans, as defined by Pinto-Duschinsky, concerned foreign donations, paid election advertising on television, and corporate political donations, whereas limits related to the contributions. Public funding has been introduced in various countries to compensate political parties for the expenses incurred in the course of electoral campaigns, finance their ordinary activities, cover part of their costs, reduce their need for money, and, perhaps above all, to prevent corruption. Violations of the campaign or electoral finance legislation result in a plurality of sanctions. The obvious implication of distribution of sanctions adopt from a minimum of at least one sanction and up to a maximum of seven different sanctions.
