Comparative Political Finance Among the Democracies by Herbert E Alexander

Author:Herbert E Alexander [Alexander, Herbert E]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780429703478
Goodreads: 44598053
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-03-07T00:00:00+00:00

Notes

1. While reviewing this article for publication, the Prime Minister has called for advanced national election. Among the factors explaining the Prime Minister’s decision was judicial investigation of illegal party finance. The Files a case, later explained in this article, has played a decisive role in this action.

2. For a detailed description of the Spanish party financing of political parties in that period, see the author’s, “Financing of the Spanish Political Parties,” in Herbert E. Alexander, ed., Comparative PoliticalFinance in the 1980s. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989), pp. 172-199.

3. As was recognized for most parliamentary groups in 1985, see “Boletin Oficial de las Cortes,” Congreso de los Disputados. Madrid, March 14,1985, pp. 104 and 105.

4. Data on the expenditures of German party foundations in Spain between 1983 and 1988 are reported in Michael Pinto-Duschinsky, “Foreign Political Aid: The German Political Foundations and Their U.S. Counterparts,” International Affaires, Vol. 67, No. 1,1991, pp. 38 and 55.

5. Del Castillo in Alexander, pp. 186-188 (see footnote 2 above).

6. The report elaborated by the previously mentioned Inquiry Commission is discussed in detail in the author’s, “Lay electoral y fïnanciación de las campañas électorales.” Madrid, 1985 (unpublished). The study was developed with the support of the Centro de Estudios Constitucionales.

7. “Ley origánica del Regimen Electoral General,” 5/1985, June 19, on the Regimen Electoral General, Boletin Oficial del Estado, June 20.

8. “Ley Organica de Fïnanciación de los Partidos Politicos,” 3∕1987, July 2, on Financing of Political Parties, Boletin Oficial del Estado, July 3.

9. See the author’s “Lay electoral y fínancianción,” p. 45.

10. The effects of discrimination against minor parties are shown in the author’s, “Financing of Spanish Political Parties,” p. 177, Table 2, and “Fïnanciación de las elecciones generales de 1986,” Revista de Derecho Politico, Vol. 25,1988, Table 1, pp. 124-125.

11. The report is discussed in Hans-Peter Schneider, “The New German System of Party Financing: The Presidential Committee Report of 1983 and its Realization,” in Herbert E. Alexander, ed., Comparative Political Finance in the 1980s, pp. 220-233.

12. The Tribunal de Cuentas has not fulfilled its legal duty in annually publishing a report on party ordinary expenses and income. Currently, the only the one corresponding to 1987 has been published.

13. For example, in 1991, the organization secretary of the government party, the Socialist party, declared that his group had a debt of 5.995 billion pesetas. See El Pais, June 23,1991, p. 19.

14. These statements were published by several newspapers. See, for example, El Pais, April 23,1991, p. 1 and “ABC,” April 1991, p. 17.

15. Ibid.

16. These practices have mobilized the Stockholder Association into demanding legal guarantees for shareholder rights since, in most cases, the shareholders did not know about the political donations given by their companies. See El Mundo, June 7,1991, p. 11.

17. At this writing, a new scandal has arisen relating to some of the policies followed by the former staff of the public railroads. The former General Director of the Public Railroad office, now Minister of Public Health, was accused of speculation by artificially increasing the price of some land and selling it to private companies.

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