The global financial crisis of the recent years has been a serious stress test for representative democracies. Voter support has supposedly become more volatile, fragmented and polarized, leaving elites with an intricate mix of economic and political challenges. However, a closer look at a new...

This paper is the first systematic attempt to map the evolution of legal regulations concerning campaign finance in post-communist Romania and to link them with corruption practices parties have been engaged in, over the last decade. Our document analysis reveals a general increase in the...