ABSTRACT
Funding democratization investigates the funding of political competition among parties and politicians in countries that can be loosely characterized as new or emerging democracies. The contemporary experience of countries that have recently embarked on democratic transition in central and eastern Europe, east Asia, southern Africa and elsewhere is compared with the formative years of democratization in some of today’s longer established democracies of North America and western Europe. Chile, an example of re-democratization, and Spain, a recently consolidated democracy, are considered alongside.
