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Since at least two decades, the political party’s function as the primary collective actor has been questioned from a variety of perspectives, and many scholars have focused on the progressive delegitimisation that threatens to alter its representational role. The dynamics of political financing, particularly the role of private money, enable a novel understanding of the linkages between political representatives and civil society. This work attempts to stimulate discourse about the relationships between donors and political actors by examining the case of Italy in a comparative context.
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A fundamental contribution to the empirical and comparative research on party organization is given by the Political Party Database Project (https://www.politicalpartydb.org/). It examines party resources, decision-making mechanisms within parties, party statutes, and the results of decision-making procedures within parties in a number of democratic democracies (see Scarrow et al., 2017).
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Fiorelli, C. (2021). Introduction: The Informative Power of Private Political Financing. In: Political Party Funding and Private Donations in Italy. Interest Groups, Advocacy and Democracy Series. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73869-3_1
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