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pc Parties and Candidates

pc10 Overview
pc20 Guiding Principles

pc21 Level Playing Field, Fairness
pc22 Freedom of Speech
pc23 Controlling Fraud, Corruption and Unfair Practices
pc24 Political Participation
pc25 Encouraging Internal Party Democracy
pc26 Ensuring Openness, Transparency
pc27 Accountability
pc28 Checks and Balances

pca Regulating Parties and Candidates

pca01 Different Types of Regulation
pca02 Approaches to Regulating Parties and Candidates
pca03 Common Problems in Regulating Parties and Candidates

pca03a Broadcasting Time
pca03b Allocation of Time/Resources Issues
pca03c Fairness vs.Freedom of Expression
pca03d Desirability of Disclosure of Political Donations
pca03e Loopholes
pca03f Regulating Campaigns by Interest Groups

pcb Political Parties and the Electoral Process

pcb01 Parties in Election Policy Bodies (Commissions)
pcb02 Parties and Electoral Administration
pcb03 Political Parties and Voter Education
pcb04 Training Party Representatives
pcb05 Political Parties as Election Monitors

pcc Party and Candidate Registration

pcc01 Registering Candidates for Presidential Elections
pcc02 Registering Parties/Candidates for Elections

pcc02a Independent Candidates

pcc03 Regulating Nominations in Majoritarian Systems
pcc04 Regulating Nominations in PR Systems
pcc05 Signatures and Deposits

pcc05a Signatures
pcc05b Deposits

pcc06 Special Initiatives
pcc07 Restrictions on Candidacy

pcd Party and Candidate Financing

pcd01 Public Financing

pcd01a Direct

pcd01a01 Funding Formulas
pcd01a02 Costs and Public Responses
pcd01a03 Public Opinion on State Subsidies for Parties
pcd01a04 Party Newspapers and Special Party Organisations
pcd01a05 Funding of Party Overseas Activities

pcd01b Indirect

pcd02 Private Financing

pcd02c01 By Business Corporations
pcd02c02 By Trade Unions

pcd02d Fundraising Activities
pcd02e In Kind Contributions
pcd02f Profits from Party-Owned Business Activities
pcd02g Grass Roots Approaches
pcd02h Foreign Contributions
pcd02i Interest Groups: Third parties

pcd03 Illegal Financing

pcd03a Narco-traffic
pcd03b Other Illegal Donations

pcd04 Regulating Party Financing

pcd04a Expenditure Limits
pcd04b Contribution Limits

pcd04b01 Levels

pcd04c Disclosure Regulations

pcd04c01 Disclosure of Amount
pcd04c02 Disclosure of Source
pcd04c03 Disclosure Thresholds
pcd04c04 Access to Disclosed Information

pcd04d Bans Against Certain Kinds of Contributions

pcd04e Bans Against Certain Types of Expenditures
pcd04f Anti-Corruption Initiatives

pce Election Campaigns

pce01 Codes of Conduct for Political Parties
pce02 Regulating Advertising
pce03 Public Broadcasting Allocations

pce03a Formulas for Allocating Time

pce04 Campaign Expenditure Disclosures

pce05 Spending Limits

pce05a Calculation/Communication of Limits
pce05b Personal Expenses Issue

pcf Breaches and penalties

pcf01 Types of offences
pcf02 Severity of offences
pcf03 Fines and imprisonment
pcf04 Forfeiting parliamentary seats
pcf05 Breaches of regulations regarding party name
pcf06 Breaches of rules for nominating candidates
pcf07 Breaches of political finance regulations
pcf08 Personation
pcf09 Intimidation of electors
pcf10 Bribery

pcx Sample Materials Index

pcx_c001 Requirements checklist for candidates - Chile 1997 (PDF file)
pcx_c002 Requirements checklist for parties - Chile 1997 (PDF file)
pcx_f001 Candidate registration form - Guinea Bissau (PDF file)
pcx_f002 Party registration form - Sweden (PDF file)
pcx_f003 Party registration support form - Sweden (PDF file)
pcx_f004 Forms: nomination withdrawal - Namibia (PDF file)
pcx_l001 Law on participants - Guinea Bissau 1991 (PDF file)
pcx_l002 Regulations for registration of parties - Namibia (PDF file)
pcx_l003 Code of conduct for political parties - Namibia (PDF file)
pcx_m001 Party / candidate registration guide - Bosnia (PDF file)
pcx_m002 Information for candidates - Quebec (PDF file)
pcx_m003 Candidature - Philippines (PDF file)
pcx_m004 Party registration guide - Sweden (PDF file)
pcx_o001 Proclamation regarding candidates - Namibia (PDF file)
pcx_o002 Nomination of candidates local authority elections - Namibia (PDF file)
pcx_o003 Nomination of candidate regional council elections - Namibia (PDF file)

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