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Authors : 1. Evgeniy A. Akunchenko,
assistant lecturer
Siberia Federal University, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
Security measures as a means of corruption prevention when financing election campaigns
Objective: to prove the necessity to increase the efficiency of legal relations protection in the sphere of financing of election campaigns by implementing security measures.
Methods: analytical, formal-logic (deduction, induction, defining and division of a notion), and comparative-legal.
Results: basing on the analysis of the existing national and foreign election legislation, the author determines corruptive actions when financing election campaigns and suggests means for preventing such actions, such as the institution of election deposit and institution of candidate’s expenses compensation.
Scientific novelty: for the first time such determinants of corruptive actions when financing election campaigns are defined as the possibility for the candidate to refuse from participating in voting without forcing circumstances, as well as the lack of efficient measures to prevent such refusal. The legislation states the norms creating conditions for committing corruption crimes, namely the possibility for the candidates to use guarantees of passive election right for sordid motives.
Practical value: the theoretical provisions formulated in the research can be used in law-making activity, in particular, to serve as the basis for reforming the existing election legislation of the Russian Federation.
Keywords :
election procedure; elections; financing election campaigns; corruption; security measures; election deposit
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