Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
EU Good Governance Promotion in the Age of Democratic Decline, Diğdem Soyaltın-Colella, Editör, Palgrave Macmillan, London , London, ss.1-323, 2022
Abstract
Transparency and accountability are the primary prerequisites to an effectively functioning
political system in democratic countries. Thereby, good governance and market
economy can become more sustainable, and politicians can be prevented from
using their political power for private gain instead of the public interest.
However, recent democratic decline around the world and, particularly, in
several EU member and candidate states, has created a challenge to transparent
and accountable financing of politics. This
study aims to explore the extent to which recent democratic backsliding has affected
the content of regulations and implementation of political financing, and vice versa,
in the 27 EU member states, the United Kingdom, and seven EU
candidate/potential candidate countries. We argue that in the countries where
there has been a sharp decline in their corruption perception, democracy,
freedoms, civil rights and liberties, and governance scores, it is expected that
there will have been regression in the rules, regulations and, in particular, practices
of the transparency and accountability of political financing. Our findings
indicate that there is no uniform or mutual relationship between the
transparency and accountability of political financing, and democracy,
freedoms, corruption perception, and governance performance levels, and which
appears to be the same for all European countries. In this regard, each country
should be evaluated on its own merits.