Checkbook Elections?

Money is essential for electoral politics yet its use and abuse often raises problems of graft, corruption, and cronyism. To throw new light on these challenges, this book addresses three questions: what types of public policies are commonly used around the world to regulate the role of money in politics? What triggers landmark reforms in political finance? And, 'what works,' what fails, and why - when countries reform regulations?

Pippa Norris is the Maguire Lecturer in Comparative Politics at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and Laureate and Professor of Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney. She is Director of the Electoral Integrity Project.
Andrea Abel van Es is the Senior Research Fellow for the Money, Politics and Transparency project at the Electoral Integrity Project in the Department of Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney.

List of Figures
List of Tables
Preface and Acknowledgments
About the Contributors
INTRODUCTION
1. Understanding Political Finance Reform
Pippa Norris and Andrea Abel van Es
CASE STUDIES
2. Brazil
Bruno Speck
3. Britain
Justin Fisher
4. India
Eswaran Sridharan and Milan Vaishnav
5. Indonesia
Marcus Mietzner
6. Japan
Matthew Carlson
7. Russia
Grigorii V. Golosov
8. South Africa
Richard Calland
9. Sweden
Magnus Ohman
10. United States
Richard Briffault
COMPARATIVE EVIDENCE
11. Why Regulate?
Andrea Abel van Es
12. Does Regulation Work?
Pippa Norris and Andrea Abel van Es
CONCLUSIONS
13. The Lessons for Political Finance Reform
Pippa Norris and Andrea Abel van Es
Technical and Statistical Appendices
Select Bibliography
Index