Invisible Business

The Unregulated World of Political Party Commerce

Bibliographic Data

ID6353391
AuthorsSue Granik
Year2005
Volume25
Issue2
Pages89-98
Publication date2005-05-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePolitics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0032-3268 • E-ISSN: 1467-9256
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1111/j.1467-9256.2005.00233.x
OpenAlexW2072711010
LanguageEN
References cited6

This article explores an area of British political party funding that is overlooked, under-researched and under-regulated: party commerce. A comparison of the trading activities of five large and five small political party headquarters units is presented using audited political party accounts made public by the Electoral Commission in 2003, the first year in which such data became available. The anomalies in party funding transparency arising from the lack of regulation of political party commerce are discussed. The dangers of allowing party commerce to continue unregulated, or of inappropriate regulation, are debated

Audit · Business · Commission · Democracy · Economics · Party platform · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Transparency (behavior · Labor Movements and Unions · Law · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Public Administration · Public Policy and Administration Research · Accounting

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