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dc.contributor.authorBolleyer, Nicole
dc.date.accessioned2013-05-28T15:31:57Z
dc.date.issued2012-03-01
dc.description.abstractIt is widely acknowledged that political parties in European democracies have become increasingly dependent on state resources, most notably direct state funding. Yet cross-national studies on parties' usage of state resources that are not earmarked for partisan purposes, which require the assessment of informal, intra-organisational practices, are still rare. This article looks at one such practice across 33 parties in five European democracies: namely the 'taxing' of national MPs' salaries. Under this practice, candidates who enter elected office on a party ticket are obliged regularly to donate a fixed share of their public salaries to party coffers. The empirical analysis shows that the presence of a taxing rule is more likely in parties with a strong extra-parliamentary organisation, while a leftist ideology facilitates the collection of high salary shares from parliamentarians. Moreover, where party entanglement with the state is particularly pronounced, the partisan usage of parliamentary salaries is easier irrespective of their organisational dispositions. Finally, while in unitary systems national headquarters are usually able to monopolise control over national MPs' contributions, in federal systems regional party executives are able to insist on their share of these payments. © 2012 Copyright Taylor and Francis Group, LLC.en_GB
dc.description.sponsorshipMarie Curie Early Career Fellowshipen_GB
dc.identifier.citationVol. 35, Issue 2, pp. 209 - 237en_GB
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/01402382.2011.648004
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10871/9661
dc.publisherRoutledgeen_GB
dc.rights.embargoreasonpublisher policyen_GB
dc.subjectParty fundingen_GB
dc.subjectParty organisationen_GB
dc.subjectInformal politicsen_GB
dc.subjectparliamentary salariesen_GB
dc.subjectparty-state relationsen_GB
dc.title"The Partisan Usage of Parliamentary Salaries: Informal Party Practices Compared"en_GB
dc.typeArticleen_GB
dc.date.available2013-09-01T03:00:10Z
dc.identifier.issn0140-2382
dc.descriptiontypes: Articleen_GB
dc.identifier.journalWest European Politicsen_GB


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