Financing Electoral Campaigns of Parliamentary Candidates: An Analysis about 2011 General Elections

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Being a member of parliament is essentially a status where voters transfer their right of management by own will. During election periods, political parties and parliamentary candidates take in hand a specific amount of campaign spending to reach a maximum level of votes. That concept, which constitutes a large part of the concept of political finance, consists of treasury grands, fees, donations and income from various organizations. Individuals, who are willing to be a member of parliament, also demonstrate effort of raising additional funds as much as possible for performing better promotion activities. In this regard, each parliamentary candidate gives series of financial decisions and engages into a decision process like an investor according to a finance perspective.The aim of this article is to determine the private campaign budgets of the candidates and to reveal whether they act as a risk taker or not to win the election from the financial viewpoint. For this purpose a survey is conducted to parliamentary candidates including 14 political parties and independents which stand for election in Izmir and the findings are analyzed.

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Member of parliament , political finance , risk taking , financial choice.

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