A Reform Architecture for Political Party Funding in Aotearoa New Zealand
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.26686/pq.v19i1.8108Keywords:
Political party funding, Donation reform, State funding, Tax credits, Democracy vouchersAbstract
We recently published a comprehensive report on political party funding in Aotearoa New Zealand (Rashbrooke and Marriott, 2022). This article documents some of the issues we discovered in the process of writing that report and some of the solutions we propose to address these issues. We recommend stronger donation regulation: capping annual donations at $15,000 and donor identification for donations above $1,500. We also recommend increased state funding: for approximately $2 per voter per annum, ‘big money’ can be eliminated from the political finance arena. This improves transparency and – crucially – can significantly reduce the perception of influence from large donations.
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