To make the comparison between countries, three areas are evident in funding regulation

that could be improved: parties-citizens relationship; transparency and control; and

sanctions. This section shows some of the "good practices" observed in other countries on
issues related to the regulatory areas.
A. Measures to improve the parties-citizens relationship.

 Public Case

o Reduce the gap between public and private funds.

The distribution of public resources among political parties have four different
forms:
- Distributed equally among all those parties
They are distributed equally among those parties that reached a certain
electoral threshold, these are: Poland and Chile.
- Distributed equitably
They are equivalently distributed according to the number of votes, these
are France and Austria. However, France only finances through this
method.
- Distributed equitably and equally
It is distributed in both ways, because it depends on the type of choice,
these are: Argentina and Mexico.
- Matching funds
This initiative seeks to promote the financial participation of citizens in the
electoral process. It also seeks to encourage campaign participants to
collect their own resources. This helps not only to ensure independence of
the state, but also encourages the political participation of citizens by
strengthening the bond between parties and voters. This bring highest
levels of trust in political parties. These are Germany, Netherlands and
Argentina.

o Conditionality in the use of public subsidies

- Allocate political funds to public funds parties receive from the state
 Finance their campaign spending, these are: Austria, Chile.
 Finance their ongoing party activities, these are: France, Argentina
 Finance their fulfilling party goals or program, these are: Poland,
Mexico,
 Earmarked1, this is Netherlands.

1
Political training and educational activities, dissemination of information, maintaining contacts with and
engaging in training and education of sister parties outside the country, political-scientific activities,
promoting the political participation of young people, member canvassing, involving nonmember in
activities of the party, canvassing, selections and guidance of holders of political office on top of activities
related with electoral campaigns (art. 7.2).
Table 1. Type of financing per country

 In table 1 we can observe the different forms of financing of political campaigns, together
with whether in each country it is mandatory to report their campaign expenses and if they
do not incur a penalty.
On the other hand, it is classified if the country can buy audiovisual media or not. So only
Austria and Chile allow the purchase of these means, since there are countries like France
that offer this service in a free and equitable way. There are also countries like Poland that
do not allow the reproduction of any type of advertising campaign.
B. Trasparency and Control.

 Table 2. Type of sanctions per country