Sikk, A; (2004) Party Financing Regimes and Emergence of New Parties in Latvia and Estonia. In: (Proceedings) ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops 2004. European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR): Uppsala, Sweden.

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The paper addresses the question on the impact of party financing regulations on party systems in the post-communist Central and Eastern European democracies. It proposes a formal theoretical model of party financing regime restrictiveness vis-à-vis new political parties and analyses the Estonian and Latvian experience with new parties in the light of the countries’ party financing regimes. Estonian system of advanced public financing has inhibited the success of new actors better than in Latvia, where the parties receive no subsidies from state budget. However, the last elections saw significant success of new parties (Res Publica and New Era) in both countries. The paper analyses how new parties have been operating in the context of party financing regimes, relying on specific combinations of resources in achieving success. Finally, the potential effects of recent amendments in party financing regulations of regulations will be considered.

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