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Daily Archives: April 13, 2011

Party finance and Political Representation

Ken McDonagh 13 April 2011 Vincent Browne has a new bugbear – party finance. In today’s Irish Times he writes: ‘The only reason anyone would give money to a political party is because they expect to get something in return’ He goes on to link the problem of private funding for political parties to the…

April 13, 2011 in Electoral Reform, New party politics, Politics, regulatory systems.

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