Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface and acknowledgements
- List of contributors
- Introduction
- 1 Money and politics: rethinking a conceptual framework
- 2 Trends in British political funding, 1979–84
- 3 Canadian election expense legislation, 1963–85: a critical appraisal or was the effort worth it?
- 4 Public funding of elections in Australia
- 5 American presidential elections since public funding, 1976–84
- 6 Party financing in Israel: experience and experimentation, 1968–85
- 7 Public financing of parties in Italy
- 8 Financing of Spanish political parties
- 9 The “modesty” of Dutch party finance
- 10 The new German system of party funding: the Presidential committe report of 1983 and its realization
- 11 Structure and impact of public subsidies to political parties in Europe: the examples of Austria, Italy, Sweden and West Germany
- Index
8 - Financing of Spanish political parties
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 December 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface and acknowledgements
- List of contributors
- Introduction
- 1 Money and politics: rethinking a conceptual framework
- 2 Trends in British political funding, 1979–84
- 3 Canadian election expense legislation, 1963–85: a critical appraisal or was the effort worth it?
- 4 Public funding of elections in Australia
- 5 American presidential elections since public funding, 1976–84
- 6 Party financing in Israel: experience and experimentation, 1968–85
- 7 Public financing of parties in Italy
- 8 Financing of Spanish political parties
- 9 The “modesty” of Dutch party finance
- 10 The new German system of party funding: the Presidential committe report of 1983 and its realization
- 11 Structure and impact of public subsidies to political parties in Europe: the examples of Austria, Italy, Sweden and West Germany
- Index
Summary
On November 20, 1975, General Francisco Franco died after having ruled under an authoritarian system for almost forty years. On May 15, 1977, a little less than two years later, the first democratic elections in Spain since 1936 took place. Three months before these elections, the government of President Adolfo Suarez approved a Decree-Law, the objective of which was to set the electoral process down in law. This law also regulated the electoral expenditures and revenues of the political parties and established state subsidies to help pay electoral expenses. The public financing of party expenses incurred in local elections was approved in July, 1978. The Spanish Constitution of 1978 sanctioned a national territorial organization on a regional basis. There are a total of seventeen regions, or Communidades Autónomas. Each of them has its own political institutions and a certain degree of political and administrative autonomy, the limits of which are set by the Constitution itself and by the Statutes of each Community. The elections for the regional parliaments also receive public financing. The first elections, conducted in the Basque Country and Catalonia, took place in 1980. Normal party activities also are publicly financed. Annual subsidies to parties were established by the Political Parties Law of 1978.
In other words, the Spanish political parties receive, on one hand, state support for electoral expenses on the local, regional and national levels and, on the other hand, public revenues to finance their ordinary activities.
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- Comparative Political Finance in the 1980s , pp. 172 - 199Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1989
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