Should the state fund political parties?
- Created by: rosiekennedy
- Created on: 17-12-18 20:26
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- Should the state fund political parties?
- For
- End opportunities for corrupt use of donations
- End possibilities of hidden forms of influence through funding
- Reduce the huge financial advantage that large parties enjoy and give smaller parties the opportunity to progress
- Improve democracy by ensuring wider participation from groups that have no ready source of funds
- Against
- Taxpayers objecting to funding parties as they are considered as 'private' organisations
- Difficult to know how to distribute funding
- Parties may lose some of their independence and will see themselves as organs of the state
- May lead to excessive state regulation of parties
- For
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