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    Political Finance Regulation: The Global Experience

    Political Finance Regulation: The Global Experience offers insight into how the often-muddy intersection between money and politics can be regulated, taking into account the experiences of various countries around the world. The concept for the book arose from the two-plus years of IFES’ work on a United Nations Democracy Fund project aimed at establishing global standards for political finance.

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    Political Finance, Financial Disclosure, Public Funding

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    Political Finance

    Promoting political integrity through the establishment of transparent and accountable systems of political finance and public ethics is a priority in emerging, consolidating, and established democracies. Recognizing that each environment requires a unique approach, IFES partners with international organizations and works with all key in-country stakeholders – government institutions, political parties, civil society groups, media, and scholars – in a collaborative and holistic manner to support effective and appropriate transparency and accountability measures.

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Features

The ACE Electoral Knowledge Network is a global online resource for election policy, planning, organization and management. ACE was established in 1995 as a cooperative endeavor among three founding organizations: IFES, the International Institute for Democracy and Elections (IDEA), and the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA).

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The purpose of financial disclosure is to monitor the assets of a public official or politician who performs activities closely connected to the public interest. It is a measure whereby public officials are required to periodically declare their personal income and wealth for scrutiny by a state authority and public in general.

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Promoting political integrity through the establishment of transparent and accountable systems of political finance and public ethics is a priority in emerging, consolidating, and established democracies. Recognizing that each environment requires a unique approach, IFES partners with international organizations and works with all key in-country stakeholders – government institutions, political parties, civil society groups, media, and scholars – in a collaborative and holistic manner to support effective and appropriate transparency and accountability measures.

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Promoting political integrity through the establishment of transparent and accountable systems of political finance and public ethics is a priority in emerging, consolidating, and established democracies. Recognizing that each environment requires a unique approach, IFES partners with international organizations and works with all key in-country stakeholders to implement initiatives that apply tested best-practices.

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