Valeria Tonhäuser- University of Cologne
Valeria Tonhäuser
- University of Cologne
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Valeria Tonhäuser (born Smirnova) currently works at the Heinrich Heine University of Düsseldorf and finishes her PhD at the Cologne Center for Comparative Politics, University of Cologne. Valeria does research in Political Finance, Party Politics, Voting Behavior with special geographical interests in Russia, Norway and Germany. Her earlier works appeared in West European Politics, Party Politics, European Political Science Review and European Journal of Political Research.
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This paper focuses on the development of a key type of regulation ensuring public surveillance of political finance – party finance transparency rules. It makes two contributions to the emerging theory on the evolution of political finance regulation. First, using previous research, we conceptualize the underlying causal mechanisms that explain whe...
The growing complexity of parliamentary ethics regulation adopted over the last decades makes the systematic examination of its nature and the rationales underpinning regulatory choices an important endeavor. In this paper we introduce conceptualizations and measurements of conflict of interest (COI) regulation directed toward assuring the impartia...
If transparency in political finance is part and parcel of democracy, why do some countries adopt internationally agreed standards to regulate political finance in a more transparent way, while others do not? This paper (a) suggests a theoretical framework to address this question, taking into account international obligations, existing party finan...
This article presents a three-dimensional conceptualisation of conflict of interest (COI) regulation directed towards assuring the impartial and unbiased decision-making of parliamentarians. It distinguishes and separately measures (based on a new dataset) COI strictness, sanctions and transparency and shows that they indeed constitute empirically...
Independent party tribunals (i.e. intra-party courts) can be used by both the party leadership (e.g. to discipline members) and rank-and-file members (e.g. to challenge the leadership overstepping its authority). Thus, their study offers broad insights into party conflict regulation we know little about. Integrating the literatures on party organiz...
