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UK v US campaign finance - Coggle Diagram
UK v US campaign finance
reforms
UK
The Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000 (PERA) required all parties register with the EC and put controls on donations
Transparency of Lobbying, Non-party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Act (2014) regulated all expenditure of outside groups and put limits on donations from pressure groups
US
FECA 1974 - maximum donations introduced and limits on expenditure by presidential candidates and federal funding (hard money limits)
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similarities
both have monitoring bodies for donations and expenditure on campaigns - UK has the Electoral Commission (EC) and US has the Federal Election Commission (FEC)
differences
there is no real limits on campaign expenditure in the US (only really applies to presidential candidates who take federal funding)
role of outside groups
UK
in 2015 no group could spend more than £9,750 per constituency in an election campaign
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impact
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differences
money plays greater role in US elections than in the UK - far higher levels of expenditure and donations