Financing Referendum Campaigns
ISBN: 9780230248656
Platform/Publisher: SpringerLink / Palgrave Macmillan UK
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Subjects: Palgrave Political & Intern. Studies Collection;

Critics of referendums often lament that big money may buy success at the ballot box. But spending by interest groups may also be informative for citizens. This can only happen, however, if the financing of referendum campaigns is regulated. This book offers an overview of these regulations and presents research on their effects.

KARIN GILLAND LUTZ is Publications Manager at the Centre for Comparative and International Studies, ETH Zürich, Switzerland. Her recent research concerns the policy effects of direct democracy.

SIMON HUG is Professor of Political Science, University of Geneva, Switzerland. His research deals with the effects of political institutions, including referendums, on policy outcomes and political conflict.


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