Blogposts
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