https://booksandideas.net// Books & Ideas is the English-language mirror website of La Vie des Idées, a free online journal which has gained a large readership and established itself in France as a major place for intellectual debate since 2007. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://booksandideas.net/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH68/siteon0-04014.png?1675949311 https://booksandideas.net// 68 144 https://booksandideas.net/Elections-for-Sale https://booksandideas.net/Elections-for-Sale 2020-10-14T07:00:00Z text/html en Emmanuelle Avril International Great Britain funding political party Public Books <p>Great Britain only belatedly passed certain laws regulating the funding of political parties. With a small share of public money and varied sources of private funding, this system is accused of favouring large donors and extremism. These criticisms invite us to think of a fairer system.</p> https://booksandideas.net/The-Limits-of-Transparency https://booksandideas.net/The-Limits-of-Transparency 2020-10-13T07:00:00Z text/html en Eric Phélippeau Politics France democracy elections funding political party Public Books money <p>In France as in the United States, transparency has become a core democratic requirement, and is the cornerstone of all the laws that claim to regulate the funding of political life. But this art of disclosing information often coexists with the ability to conceal it.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Voting-with-Euros https://booksandideas.net/Voting-with-Euros 2019-04-29T06:00:00Z text/html en Pierre-Yves Néron Politics democracy funding equality political party <p>The ways in which political parties are funded, in France and elsewhere, tend to reinforce the invisibility of certain groups and the political influence of the wealthiest people in society, in particular through right-wing parties. Are there, Julia Cagé wonders, more democratic ways of funding democracy?</p>