When (and how) ideas become arguments: the regulation of party donations in Germany

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When (and how) ideas become arguments: the regulation of party donations in Germany. / Koß, Michael.
in: Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica, Jahrgang 2024, 31.01.2024.

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title = "When (and how) ideas become arguments: the regulation of party donations in Germany",
abstract = "This article aims to explain the deviant German case of an early and comprehensive regulation of party donations (combining a high level of transparency and incentives for small donations). Given the limited explanatory power of economic and institutional factors, the article emphasises the causal role of ideas for a policy stabilisation which occurred after 1993. A process-tracing analysis suggests that the 1983–1993 reform period was characterised by a conflict of ideas. During this conflict, ideas regarding undisclosed donations as an anti-democratic interference with democratic political competition came to prevail over ideas regarding all donations as a necessary condition for democratic competition irrespective of their regulation. The key actors in this conflict were, on the one hand, the new Green party which resuscitated the idea of donations being potentially anti-democratic and, on the other hand, the Constitutional Court which ultimately endorsed this ideational legacy promoted by the Greens. After 1993, donations in Germany came to be accepted as a necessary evil whose anti-democratic potential had to be limited by transparency obligations and incentives for small donations. The findings presented here suggest that policymakers need to link attempts to regulate party donations to ideational legacies (if available) to successfully tackle political corruption.",
keywords = "Politics, case study, donations, germany, ideational policy stabilisation, party funding, process-tracing analysis, qualitative content analysis",
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year = "2024",
month = jan,
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doi = "10.1017/ipo.2023.31",
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KW - ideational policy stabilisation

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