El gasto publico en financiacion politica: las subvenciones para el funcionamiento ordinario de los partidos

In: Revista de estudios políticos, Issue 128, p. 255-291

Abstract

Spain started the regulation of party financing in the mid seventies when democracy was restored. This paper deals with public subsidies for funding the current expenditures of political parties. It reviews the trends in legislation & practices in political finance during the last quarter of a century. Our purpose is to find out whether the observed behavior of parties is consistent with the predictions of rational choice theory. We also suggest a new way to fund the parties that in our view would do away with most of the reported shortcomings of the present system. Tables, References. Adapted from the source document.