The Business of Elections: Transparency and UK Election Spending
| Author | Kate Dommett,Sam Power |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1177/20419058221127465 |
| Published date | 01 September 2022 |
| Date | 01 September 2022 |
12POLITICAL INSIGHT•SEPTEMBER 2022
In the six weeks before the 2019 General
Election, British parties received more
than £30 million in donations. Tens of
millions more was spent during the
campaign. But how was this money spent by
parties? What do we really know about the
business of elections?
Whilst the UK has long been held up as
The Business of Elections:
Transparency and UK
Election Spending
Stories about political donations often grab the headlines, but how do
parties spend the money they take in? Kate Dommett and Sam Power
report on a new project that has looked for answers – and found many
concerning gaps in the information about election spending.
a bastion of electoral transparency, scratch
beneath the surface of publicly reported
information and a range of questions
emerge. What exactly is the money reported
at elections being spent on, who are the
businesses supplying these services, and are
political parties investing in the same kind of
campaigning activity?
These questions, whilst seemingly
simple, are incredibly dicult to answer.
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