TY - JOUR
T1 - Improving corporate political donations disclosure
T2 - lessons from Australia
AU - Leong, Shane
AU - Hazelton, James
PY - 2017/9/2
Y1 - 2017/9/2
N2 - One of the activities corporations should be accountable for is their level of political donations. This paper examines two mandatory corporate political donation disclosure regimes in Australia and identifies three important lessons. First, our review confirms that although few citizens may care enough to scrutinise donation disclosure, there are people interested in such information and we should take political donation disclosure regimes seriously. Second, a well-funded entity must be made responsible not just for administering the disclosure system, but also for reviewing and recommending updates to the system. One disclosure regime examined in this paper was never updated to reflect the existence of the internet until 2007, because no-one was responsible for monitoring the regime and suggesting necessary updates. Finally, details concerning the ultimate source of donations should be provided.
AB - One of the activities corporations should be accountable for is their level of political donations. This paper examines two mandatory corporate political donation disclosure regimes in Australia and identifies three important lessons. First, our review confirms that although few citizens may care enough to scrutinise donation disclosure, there are people interested in such information and we should take political donation disclosure regimes seriously. Second, a well-funded entity must be made responsible not just for administering the disclosure system, but also for reviewing and recommending updates to the system. One disclosure regime examined in this paper was never updated to reflect the existence of the internet until 2007, because no-one was responsible for monitoring the regime and suggesting necessary updates. Finally, details concerning the ultimate source of donations should be provided.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85020177080&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/0969160X.2017.1336108
DO - 10.1080/0969160X.2017.1336108
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85020177080
SN - 0969-160X
VL - 37
SP - 190
EP - 202
JO - Social and Environmental Accountability Journal
JF - Social and Environmental Accountability Journal
IS - 3
ER -