The Funding of European Political Parties: a process-tracing analysis of the factors driving the 2018 reform of the party finance rules KU Leuven
In his State of the Union speech in 2017, President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker announced new funding rules for European political parties and foundations. This dissertation focuses on this revision of the regulatory framework, which was completed in 2018. The main objective is to explain this change of the rules, both regarding timing and content. After a general introduction in the first chapter of the dissertation, chapter ...