Regulating Political Parties: European Democracies in Comparative Perspective
Regulating Political Parties: European Democracies in Comparative Perspective
edited by Ingrid van Biezen and Hans Martien ten Napel
Amsterdam University Press eISBN: 978-94-006-0195-6
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK
Regulating Political Parties provides a novel and valuable contribution to the existing literature on political parties by discussing the various dimensions of party law and regulation, in Europe and other regions of the world. To what extent are political parties legitimate objects of state regulation? What are the dilemmas of regulating political finance? To what extent are parties accorded a formal constitutional status? What are the consequences of legal bans on political parties? How do legal arrangements affect parties representing ethnic minorities? These and related questions are discussed and examined from both theoretical and empirical perspectives. By bringing together international experts from the disciplines of law and political science, this volume thus addresses from an interdisciplinary and comparative point of view what has long been a notable lacuna in the study of political parties.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Ingrid van Biezen is Professor of Comparative Politics and Head of Department at Leiden University.
Hans-Martien ten Napel is Associate Professor of Constitutional and Administrative Law at Leiden University in the Netherlands, and a senior researcher at the Netherlands School of Human Rights Research.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Table of contents Introduction 7 Ingrid van Biezen & Hans-Martien ten Napel Chapter 1: Democracy and the Legal Regulation of Political Parties 17 Richard S. Katz Chapter 2: Dilemmas of Regulating Political Finance, with Special Reference to the Dutch Case 45 Ruud Koole Chapter 3: Lessons from the Past: Party Regulation in the Netherlands 71 Remco Nehmelman Chapter 4: Th e Constitutionalization of Political Parties in Post-war Europe 93 Ingrid van Biezen Chapter 5: Party Laws in Comparative Perspective 119 Fernando Casal Bértoa, Daniela R. Piccio & Ekaterina R. Rashkova Chapter 6: Explaining Legislative Confl ict over the Adoption of Political Financing Law in the European Union 149 Wojciech Gagatek Chapter 7: The SGP Case: Did it Really (Re)Launch the Debate on Party Regulation in the Netherlands 181 Hans-Martien ten Napel & Jaco van den Brink Chapter 8: Will it All End in Tears? What Really Happens when Democracies Use Law to Ban Political Parties 195 Tim Bale Chapter 9: Ethnic Party Regulation in Eastern Europe 225 Ekaterina R. Rashkova and Maria Spirova Chapter 10: On the Engineerability of Political Parties: Evidence from Mexico 253 Imke Harbers & Matthew C. Ingram About the authors 279 Index 285