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Aspects Of Political Financing

Addressing Specific Objectives for Reforms in the Russian Federation

by
Dr. Michael Pinto-Duschinsky
Vice-chairman, Research Committee on Political Finance and Political Corruption, International Political Science Association and Senior Research Fellow in Politics, Brunel University, England.

December 1997

This paper was made possible by a grant from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
The opinions expressed in this paper are solely of the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES).
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Introduction. Some objectives for reform of regulations relating to political financing in Russia

Section One. Regulating political broadcasting on television and radio, with special reference to privately owned media

Section Two. Alternative formulae for distributing public financial subsidies to parties, electoral associations and electoral blocks

Section Three. The use of financial deposits as a method to regulate the number of candidates

Section Four. The use of the doctrine of `agency' to regulate unauthorised campaign expenditures.

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