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- ↑ Karl-Heinz Nassmacher: The Funding of Party Competition, Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlag, 2009, p. 113.
- ↑ Gullan Gidlund and Ruud Koole, 'Political Finance in the North of Europe (The Netherlands and Sweden)'. In: Karl-Heinz Nassmacher (ed.), Foundations for Democracy, Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlag, 2001, p. 114.
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- ↑ Third Evaluation Round, Second Interim Compliance Report on Sweden, Greco RC-III (2012) 22E, p. 3. Archived 2013-01-17 at the Wayback Machine