Table of Contents
Page
List of Abbreviations and Acronyms
3
1.0.
Introduction
4
2.0.
Justification for Public Funding of Political Parties
7
3.0.
Prohibition of Foreign Funding of Political Parties
11
4.0.
Public Funding of Political Parties in Zimbabwe
13
4.1.
Background and Context
13
4.2.
The Role of Electoral Commissions
21
4.3.
Registration of Political Parties
22
4.4.
Threshold to Access Public Funding by Political
Parties
4.5.
4.6.
5.0.
27
Sources of Funding, Disclosure, Accounting,
and Limits
30
Use of State Resources (Media, etc)
31
Recommendations
Selected Reading List
35
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