Merkproduct Business Associations and the Financing of Political Parties. A Comparative Study of the Evolution of Practices in Germany, Norway and Japan. With a preface by Alexander Heard. – FRANK C. LANGDON [ALEXANDER HEARD – FOREW.].|Heidenheimer, Arnold J.

Students of government and social power recognize that wherever governmental systems embrace popular elections, the functions and mechanisms of political finance constitute inevitable links of influence between economic structures and political processes. The transmu tation of economic power into political power has been of historic concern from ancient philosophers to modern political scientists. Efforts to discern and interpret the political roles of those engaged in funding candidates and political parti…