O financiamento político e a corrupção governamental

Abstract

In the heated debate of the Brazilian political reform, there are proposals for changing the electoral system, political funding, political coalitions, the possibility of re-election and compulsory voting. However, undoubtedly, the issue of political funding is one of the most striking and controversial, and their discussion is centered on the proper use of public resources, the interference level of economic power in the election results, and especially on the possible induction of corruption. This work aims precisely to analyze the characteristics of the main democratic countries, to identify possible correlations between political funding and government corruption. Therefore, it attempted to cross the report data "Funding of Political Parties and Electoral Campaigns", by International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance - IDEA with the results of the Corruption Perception Index 2014 by Transparency International. The results of this analysis, sometimes confirmed common sense, sometimes turned out amazing. Lastly, this paper delivers an overview of political funding in the world, indicating the correlations and non-correlations with the levels of corruption of countries. This supports the direction of the debate, indicates ways of likely success and points out issues that deserve to be deployed and deepened.