英国における政治資金浄化の歴史 : 試論的モデル化の試み

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The History of democracy is, from one point of view, the history of stragle for controling political money with it. Specially, in the age of mass-democracy after 19th century, RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ELECTION AND POLITICAL MONEY became serious and important problem. The Increase of election cost was result of people's political partisipation on one hand and it had become really serious and sometimes threat the base of democracy on the other hand. But in Britain today, the negative problem of political money is hardly discussed, because British citizen and political leader had successfully learned how to control political money in her long history. Many informed people admire it. Britain is sometimes called an honor student who deal with the problem of democracy and money. It's very meaningful to examine empirically how and why she was able to do it. But There's almost no exiting studies in Japan which analyze British political finance systematically and historically with using objective data. So the first purpose of this paper is to investigate and examine concrete data about British political finance, which is first step to analyze it. Second, I will compare it with other countries. Third, I will examine historically the relationship between political money and(1)election system, (2)party system, (3)policy system, and(4)political cultur system and analyze effect of famous Corrupt and Illigal Protection Act. Through this paper, I will prove that today Britain is really success about political finance, descibe how can realize it in her history, and make first step to modeling of her successful experience.