Description: The dataset contains tables on legal regulations on conflict-of-interest/revolving doors, political financing, lobbying activities, and media capture of nine states (Sweden, the Netherlands, the UK, France, Italy, Hungary, Bulgaria, Serbia and Ukraine) in the context of the RESPOND task related to the review and assessment of regulations on political finance, lobbying, conflict-of-interest/revolving doors, and media capture and cross-border practices of political corruption. The dataset provides an overview of the recent practices and development of the process of creation and evolution of regulatory frameworks related to domestic and cross-border practices of political corruption in the nine selected countries under the auspice of the RESPOND project. The table represents a legal review and description of existing legal framework in the respective states such as presence of relevant laws, national strategies and codes of conduct on political finance/lobbying/revolving doors/media ownership and timeline of legal adoption. The table includes the name of legislation and year of adoption of the legal regulation, the scope and target group/individual of the regulation, the oversight and enforcement bodies responsible for monitoring, verification and evaluation of the respective regulation, and the envisages sanctions for non-compliance and breaches of the regulations with respect to the four types of political corruption: political finance, lobbying, revolving doors, and media.

DOI number, liking to the repository: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17535652

Type of license: Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial No Derivatives 4.0 International (CC-BY-NC-ND)

Contributors (names and affiliation of who collected the data):
Marcia Grimes, Professor of Political Science, University of Gothenburg;
Sofia Wickberg, Assistant Professor, University of Amsterdam;
Christopher Starke, Assistant Professor, University of Amsterdam;
Dr. Sarah Gharib Seif, Research Associate, School for Government, King’s College London;
Dr. Roxana Bratu, Senior Lecturer, School for Government, King’s College London;
Cyril Benoît, Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics, CNRS, Sciences Po;
Lorena Andreea Axinte, Transcrime – Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore;
Carlotta Carbone, Transcrime – Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore;
Michele Riccardi, Transcrime, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore;
Robert Panyi, Central European University;
Viktoriia Poltoratskaia, Central European University;
Dr. Stoyan Panov, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Global Analytics;
Alessandra Lo Piccolo, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, University of Bologna;
Dr. Andrii Biletskyi, Senior Researcher of the Anti-Corruption Research and Education Centre;
Oleksandra Chupyra, Junior Researcher of the Anti-Corruption Research and Education Centre.

Editor: Dr. Rumena Filipova, Founder, Institute for Global Analytics;

Contact persons: Stoyan Panov stoyan.panov@gmail.com; Rumena Filipova rfilipova@globalanalytics-bg.org

Embargo: Not applied.