Political parties and the state in Romania: between dependence on state resources and its capture

by Cristina Matiuta,

Starting from party literature in the post-communist context, the paper aims to analyze several dimensions of party-state linkage in Romania: 1. the dependence of political parties on public subsidies and impact of regulation; 2. the share of public subsidies in the total budget of political parties by examining their revenues collected in recent years and their financial behavior; 3. the practices of embezzling public money and using state resources for electoral purposes, by referring to several corruption scandals related to their funding. It suggests that, as laws became clearer and more restrictive, the methods of those engaged in corrupt practices seem to be refined as well and that a more generous financing of political parties does not automatically entail a greater integrity of their behavior and practices.

published in Vol. 21 - No. 1 - Summer 2021
ABSTRACT

    Vol. 21, No. 1, Summer 2021 – General issue

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    Political parties and the state in Romania: between dependence on state resources and its capture

    Starting from party literature in the post-communist context, the paper aims to analyze several dimensions of party-state linkage in Romania: 1. the dependence of political parties on public subsidies and impact of regulation; 2. the share of public subsidies in the total budget of political parties by examining their revenues collected in recent years and... »

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