The funding of political parties and movements: Financial monitoring of election campaigns in 2013

This thesis focuses on the financing of the Czech political parties and movements. The work aims to show the financing of election campaigns and to evaluate the transparency of the candidate parties and movements in the context of early elections to the Chamber of Deputies in 2013. It seeks to find an answer to the question whether the opening of transparent accounts is an effective instrument to prevent non -- transparent conduct of political parties. Then I ask on the effectiveness of projects monitoring the financing of election campaigns, which was carried out by the organization Transparency International -- Czech Republic in this case. A side effect of this work is to answer the questions, by what means could be achieved a more transparent political environment and if it succeeds how we reach a state in which would be the new established changes respected? The thesis is divided into three chapters. The first chapter has purely theoretical character and focuses on the model of financing of political parties in the Czech Republic, legislation governing this area and the proposed regulatory measures. The second chapter summarizes the assessment of the political parties and movements, who participated in the project of financial monitoring in the context of election campaigns. Parties are evaluated according to criteria designed to assess their openness to the voters. The third chapter contains a summary of the financial monitoring and analytical interpretation of transparent accounts of the political parties. At the end of the work can be found a data comparison, which compares dates from the financial monitoring with those from the annual financial reports. At this point, it is undoubtedly necessary to amend the current legislation governing the political funding, for the lack of rules, which proved the work