{"id":18907,"date":"2020-07-06T08:05:29","date_gmt":"2020-07-06T08:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nimd.org\/cost-of-politics-assessing-the-influence-of-money-in-beninese-politics\/"},"modified":"2025-04-07T08:09:31","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T08:09:31","slug":"cost-of-politics-assessing-the-influence-of-money-in-beninese-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nimd.org\/nl\/cost-of-politics-assessing-the-influence-of-money-in-beninese-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Kosten van politiek: Beoordeling van de invloed van geld in de Beninese politiek"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\"We hebben heel intelligente jonge mensen in dit land die, als ze de kans krijgen, echt een positieve invloed op onze ontwikkeling zouden kunnen hebben. Maar, ik zeg het niet graag, ze zullen nooit gekozen worden als parlementslid. Want geld is een barri\u00e8re.\" Leopold Ahouandjinou, algemeen penningmeester, Moele Benin.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Op 11 juni hield NIMD Benin een workshop over de kosten van politiek in het land voor parlementsleden en vertegenwoordigers van politieke partijen, het ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken, het Hooggerechtshof, het Constitutionele Hof, de kiescommissie, anticorruptiegroepen en sociale wetenschappers.<\/p>\n<p>Geld kan van grote invloed zijn op de toegang tot de politiek, omdat de kosten van een politieke campagne in veel landen te hoog zijn. Tegelijkertijd kan het kopen van stemmen de macht op een oneerlijke manier concentreren in de handen van diegenen die ervoor kunnen en willen betalen.<\/p>\n<p>Tijdens de workshop presenteerde het Institute for Empirical Research in Political Economy (IREEP) van de African School of Economics (ASE) de Cost of Politics-studie, uitgevoerd in opdracht van NIMD. Deze studie, die nog in ontwikkeling is, helpt politieke actoren om de rol van geld in de democratie van Benin beter te begrijpen en een dialoog aan te gaan over de richting van het politieke systeem.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Aqe-ej8gj9I\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>De deelnemers gaven hun eigen indrukken van de situatie in Benin en deden aanbevelingen om het onderzoek verder te verbeteren. Na het lezen van het document riepen sommige parlementsleden ook op tot wetgeving om het speelveld gelijk te maken en uitgaven in verkiezingscampagnes effectief te reguleren.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>De kosten van politiek<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Het onderzoek naar de kosten van politiek in Benin maakt deel uit van een reeks die het NIMD uitvoert in een aantal van haar programmalanden, in samenwerking met onderzoeksgroepen zoals ASE\/IREEP en met het <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfd.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Westminster Stichting voor Democratie (WFD)<\/a>. Door middel van interviews met politici en leden van politieke partijen onderzoeken we de ware tol die geld in de politiek eist voor inclusiviteit en politieke participatie. De bevindingen zullen worden gebruikt in ons werk voor inclusieve politiek in al onze programma's.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\"We hebben heel intelligente jonge mensen in dit land die, als ze de kans krijgen, echt een positieve invloed op onze ontwikkeling zouden kunnen hebben. Maar, ik zeg het niet graag, ze zullen nooit gekozen worden als parlementslid. Want geld is een barri\u00e8re.\" Leopold Ahouandjinou, algemeen penningmeester, Moele Benin. 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