Blogposts
2024
Party registration requirements in Moldova 1991-2020: a comparative outlook
This blog post summarizes an unpublished 2019 study prepared for Moldova’s Constitutional Court, examining legal requirements for registering new political parties. It compares Moldova’s party registration requirements with other post-communist regimes, focusing on the variation in minimum membership thresholds and territorial distribution requirements that may affect citizens’ freedom of association. It also incorporates the 2020 decision of the Constitutional Court on the subject.
2023
Public Funding of Political Parties Is Unlikely To Reduce Corruption
This blogpost summarises the findings of an article co-authored with Iain McMenamin titled Rethinking public funding of parties and corruption: Confronting theoretical complexity and challenging measurement. Governance. First published: 11 April 2023. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/gove.12782
2022
Replication of Hummel, C., Gerring, J., Burt, T. (2021): ‘Do Political Finance Reforms Reduce Corruption?’
In this blogpost I replicate the study of Hummel, C., Gerring, J., Burt, T. (2021): ‘Do Political Finance Reforms Reduce Corruption?’ by looking into their measurement of public funding of political parties and checking whether their results hold across different regions
The world upside down: delegitimising political finance regulation employing alternative corruption indices
In this blogpost I replicate the study of Casal Bértoa et al. (2014) ‘The world upside down: delegitimising political finance regulation’ by using alternative corruption indices to check whether their results change conditional on the specific corruption index used
2021
Direct public funding of political parties: between proxy measures and hard data (2)
In this blogpost I analyse the development of public funding regimes in postcommunist polities
Direct public funding of political parties: between proxy measures and hard data (1)
In this blogpost I analyse the development of public funding regimes in postcommunist polities