From: Oxford Constitutions (http://oxcon.ouplaw.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2023. All Rights Reserved.date: 07 February 2025
- Subject(s):
- Constitutional courts/supreme courts — Corruption and bribery — Electoral oversight — Campaign finance — Democracy — Equality — Freedom of expression
General Editors: Rainer Grote, Frauke Lachenmann, Rüdiger Wolfrum
Managing Editor: Martina Mantovani
1 Money is essential for representative democracies (democracy). Political parties and candidates need money to maintain their office spaces, buy office supplies, pay staff and consultants, arrange transportation around their constituencies (sometimes the whole country), and produce campaign materials that can be printed (such as stickers) or published in the media (newspapers, radio, television) and distributed through the internet (eg, in social media), among other expenses (political parties or fractions in legislative bodies; political candidates and...
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