RESPOND WP2.2 Legal Frameworks Dataset of the Report "Political Graft in Europe on the Loose: Anti-Corruption Legal Frameworks in Comparative Historical Perspective"9 catalogues of legal regulations prepared as part of RESPOND work package 2.2. focused on the review and assessment of legislation related to political finance, lobbying, conflict-of-interest/revolving doors, media and cross-border practices of political corruption in Sweden, the Netherlands, the UK, France, Italy, Hungary, Bulgaria, Serbia and Ukraine

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: Sweden, the Netherlands, UK, France, Italy, Hungary, Bulgaria, Serbia, and Ukraine. 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.