Editing Political party (section)

===Restrictions===
Fundraising and expenditures by political parties are typically regulated by governments, with many countries' regulations focusing on who can contribute money to parties, how parties' money can be spent, and how much of it can pass through the hands of a political party.<ref name=hamada18>{{cite web |url=https://www.idea.int/news-media/news/let%E2%80%99s-talk-about-money-comparative-perspectives-political-finance-regulations |title=Let's talk about money: comparative perspectives on political finance regulations |publisher=[[International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance]] |first=Yukihiko |last=Hamada |date=11 December 2018 |access-date=22 January 2021 |archive-date=30 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210130022603/https://www.idea.int/news-media/news/let%E2%80%99s-talk-about-money-comparative-perspectives-political-finance-regulations |url-status=live }}</ref> Two main ways in which regulations affect parties are by intervening in their sources of income and by mandating that they maintain some level of transparency about their funding.<ref>{{cite journal |author1=David L. Wiltse |author2=Raymond J. La Raja |author3=Dorie E. Apollonio |title=Typologies of Party Finance Systems: A Comparative Study of How Countries Regulate Party Finance and Their Institutional Foundations |journal=Election Law Journal: Rules, Politics, and Policy |volume=18 |issue=3 |pages=243–261 |date=11 September 2019 |doi=10.1089/elj.2018.0493|pmid=34113217 |pmc=8189065 }}</ref> One common type of restriction on how parties acquire money is to limit who can donate money to political parties; for example, people who are not citizens of a country may not be allowed to make contributions to that country's political parties, in order to prevent foreign interference.<ref name=hamada18/> It is also common to limit how much money an individual can give to a political party each election.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.loc.gov/law/help/campaign-finance/comparative-summary.php |title=Campaign Finance: Comparative Summary |first=Nicole |last=Atwill |publisher=[[Library of Congress]] |date=May 2009 |access-date=22 January 2021 |archive-date=1 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210401021514/https://www.loc.gov/law/help/campaign-finance/comparative-summary.php |url-status=live }}</ref> Similarly, many governments cap the total amount of money that can be spent by each party in an election.<ref name=levush16/> Transparency regulations may require parties to disclose detailed financial information to the government, and in many countries transparency laws require those disclosures to be available to the public, as a safeguard against potential corruption.<ref name=fisher04/> Creating, implementing, and amending laws regarding party expenses can be extremely difficult, since governments may be controlled by the very parties that these regulations restrict.<ref name=fisher04/>