This volume deals with questions of political party funding and campaign financing, issues which arouse controversy in many parts of the world. How are the central actors in the political arena supposed to gather the funds necessary to operate effectively on behalf of their chosen political ends? And, how may they spend money in furtherance of their political objectives? This book explores these issues in the specific context of a number of national settings. The studies presented here show that financing questions cannot be addressed independent of the constitutional conventions of the...

In recent decades, the prevailing response to the problem of unacceptable labor market outcomes in both Europe and North America - national regulation of labor standards and labor relations, coupled with collective bargaining - has come under increasing pressure from the economic and technological forces associated with globalization. As those forces have shifted power away from national governments and labor union and toward capital, the appropriate institutional locus of labor regulation has become hotly contested. There have been efforts to move the locus of regulation downward to smaller...