COMBATING ELECTORAL CORRUPTION: DOES GOOD LEGAL BASIS SUFFICE?
Session
Law
Description
Electoral processes have crucial importance on the society, especially those who are still battling for proper democratic and fair elections. Given the high importance of this process, political entities usually intent to surpass some of the legal regulations in order to maximize their profit, not only politically, but financially too. Many countries in Europe have already consolidated their legal basis on fight against electoral fraud and corruption, but challenges remain. In Western Balkans, there are significant steps undertaken to improvise legal regulations which would prevent electoral corruption. However, as practice has shown, many problems remain unsolved. This paper will provide an in-depth analysis of legal background on fight against electoral corruption in Kosovo, Albania, Serbia and North Macedonia. Moreover, specific cases will be presented to illustrate how political subjects intent to bypass the law in order to maximize their electoral profit. This paper will also tackle third party campaigning, as one of the “innovative tools” of political subjects to defy the system when it comes to the electoral corruption.
Keywords:
Kosovo, Serbia, Albania, North Macedonia, legislation, elections, corruption.
Session Chair
Bekim Sejdiu
Session Co-Chair
Jorida Xhafaj
Proceedings Editor
Edmond Hajrizi
ISBN
978-9951-550-19-2
Location
Pristina, Kosovo
Start Date
10-2019 11:00 AM
End Date
10-2019 12:30 PM
DOI
10.33107/ubt-ic.2019.31
Recommended Citation
Murati, Artan, "COMBATING ELECTORAL CORRUPTION: DOES GOOD LEGAL BASIS SUFFICE?" (2019). UBT International Conference. 31.
https://knowledgecenter.ubt-uni.net/conference/2019/events/31
COMBATING ELECTORAL CORRUPTION: DOES GOOD LEGAL BASIS SUFFICE?
Pristina, Kosovo
Electoral processes have crucial importance on the society, especially those who are still battling for proper democratic and fair elections. Given the high importance of this process, political entities usually intent to surpass some of the legal regulations in order to maximize their profit, not only politically, but financially too. Many countries in Europe have already consolidated their legal basis on fight against electoral fraud and corruption, but challenges remain. In Western Balkans, there are significant steps undertaken to improvise legal regulations which would prevent electoral corruption. However, as practice has shown, many problems remain unsolved. This paper will provide an in-depth analysis of legal background on fight against electoral corruption in Kosovo, Albania, Serbia and North Macedonia. Moreover, specific cases will be presented to illustrate how political subjects intent to bypass the law in order to maximize their electoral profit. This paper will also tackle third party campaigning, as one of the “innovative tools” of political subjects to defy the system when it comes to the electoral corruption.