정치자금제도의 운영실태와 발전 방안

Abstract

As it is enough to say that today's politics depend upon the ability and the skill that raise political fund properly and divide them efficiently, political funds are getting importance with a higher proportion in politics since the modern era. The objective of this article is to grasp the actual conditions and improvement methods of money system for political activities in terms of party membership fee, political fundraising association, contribution to the election commission, and national subsidy and suggest improvement plans, analyzing the operation condition and problems of political fund system based on this research. In this context, the major findings and results in this paper are as follows. First, when it comes to collection of party membership fee, it is hard for general party members to pay volunteerly party membership fee due to political bad habits and habitual routines of bringing over to his/her party by giving money. Second, political fundraising associations have not revitalized yet. Third, there is a problem of contribution to the election commission, which is about the strict rules for individual maximum donation and the limit, causing the negotiating parties to focus on the distribution of contribution to the election commission. Fourth, appropriating national subsidy places too much emphasis on negotiating parties, which may make each party rely on national subsidy. In this study, the ways to improve the political fund system are summarized as follows: First, it need to improve contribution toward party membership fee to stand on its feet through donation, provide incentives for party membership fee payers, and open to the public about large amount of party membership fee and payer fo that. Second, the foundation for parties to support themselves should be built by expanding anonymous donation, political fundraising system through diversification of collection, and allowing political fundraising of the party. Third, the expansion of contribution to the election commission. Forth, it need to reduce of giving national subsidy and to rationalize standards for distribution and supply of national sybsidy. Fifth, introduction of the internet open system for political funds is needed.