• List of figures and tables


• List of abbreviations


• 1: Introduction: State Funding to Political Parties and the Convergence of Party Funding Regimes


• Part I Conceptual Framework


• 2: The Comparative Analysis of Party Funding Regimes


• 3: The Introduction of State Funding to Political Parties from a New Institutionalist Perspective


• 4: The Relationship between Party Funding and Party Competition


• Part II The Party Systems and Party Funding Regimes in Comparative Perspective


• 5: The Party Systems


• 6: The Party Funding Regimes


• Part III Case Studies


• 7: Germany: The Common Interest in Consensual Politics


• 8: Sweden: The Institutionally Invoked Consensus


• 9: Britain: A Growing Conflict Between Party Goals and Societal Norms With (Still) No Consequences


• 10: France: When The Conflict Between Party Goals and Societal Norms Has Consequences


• 11: Conclusion: The Determinants of Party Funding Regimes


• References


• Index

Michael Koß studied Political Science, History, and Public Law in Göttingen, Besançon, and Uppsala. He received his PhD in 2008. Alongside his PhD, he worked on two research projects funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) on the German Left Party and the regulation of personal information in comparative perspective at the universities of Sussex, Oxford, and Göttingen. Since March 2009 he has been a Lecturer at the Chair of German and European Politics and Government at the University of Potsdam working on questions of party politics and public policy. Conceptually, he is interested in comparative and neo-institutionalist research designs.

The Politics of Party Funding analyses an increasingly popular institutional choice--the introduction of state funding to political parties--and represents a first step towards a theory which explains differences and similarities in party funding regimes.