From parliamentary pay to party funding: the acceptability of informal institutions in advanced democracies

Bolleyer, Nicole and Trumm, Siim (2014) From parliamentary pay to party funding: the acceptability of informal institutions in advanced democracies. European Journal of Political Research, 53 (4). pp. 784-802. ISSN 1475-6765

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Abstract

While direct state funding of political parties has been a prominent theme in cross-national research over the last decade, we still know little about party strategies to access state resources that are not explicitly earmarked for partisan usage. This paper looks at one widespread but often overlooked informal party practice: the ‘taxing’ of MP salaries, i.e., the regular transfer of fixed salary shares to party coffers. Building on notions of informal institutions developed in work on new democracies, our theoretical approach specifies factors that shape the acceptability of this legally non-enforceable intra-organisational practice. It is tested through a selection model applied to a unique data set covering 124 parties across 19 advanced democracies. Controlling for a range of party- and institutional-level variables, we find that the presence of a taxing rule and the collection of demanding tax shares are more common in leftist parties (high internal acceptability) and in systems in which the penetration of state institutions by political parties is intense (high external acceptability).

Item Type: Article
RIS ID: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/993896
Keywords: Informal institutions, party funding, parliamentary salaries, party-state relations
Schools/Departments: University of Nottingham, UK > Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Politics and International Relations
Identification Number: https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-6765.12051
Depositing User: Trumm, Dr Siim
Date Deposited: 19 Sep 2016 14:50
Last Modified: 04 May 2020 20:12
URI: https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/id/eprint/36991

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