ABSTRACT
This chapter produces as part of the research project Political Parties and Interest Representation in Contemporary European Democracies. It analyses the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (CPBM) states the amount of the membership contribution in its statutes. The social democrats claimed ownership rights to the property appropriated by the communists after the original social democratic party had been forcibly incorporated into the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (CPC) in 1948. Czech political parties are organized as multilevel institutional structures. The biggest right-wing party the Civic Democratic Party (CDP) recognizes the party's chief manager as the person responsible for its economic and financial affairs. During the debates on party funding in the early 1990s, the right wing and the then ruling CDP and Civic Democratic Alliance (CDA) were defending a model based mainly on private donations. The process of the decoupling of politics from civil society begins to show itself, resulting in the indifference of citizens to politics.
