ABSTRACT
In the United States, the Federal Republic of Germany, and Japan, there are continuing efforts to establish a system of legal standards—the judicial strategy—while Sweden has mainly adopted the consensus strategy to regulate party financing. The strategy which operates in a particular country depends upon that country’s specific structure of party finance. The demand for effective strategies is reinforced by intermittent comprehensive “political expose” and scandals related to party finance, and by accompanying credibility crises. In 1934, an MP from the Social Democratic party in the Riksdag proposed that political organizations render their accounts, but the Committee of Law and most members of the Riksdag were against the idea of legislation and questioned its positive impact on party finance. The proposal for a national subsidy, introduced in the Riksdag in 1965, caused the deepest conflict to date regarding party financing.
