Sousa, Luís de2018-11-192018-11-192019Sousa, L. (2019). Measuring the enforcement capacity of political financing supervisory bodies. European Political Science, 18 (2), 189-204, First Online 13 April 20181680-4333http://hdl.handle.net/10451/35378One of the most innovative measures of the political financing regulatory reforms of the past 2 decades was the creation or designation of new political financing supervisory bodies, entrusted to monitor and enforce political financing regulations. These bodies have been growing in numbers in the last 2 decades, partly in response to public opinion pressure and partly to international commitments. Drawing on regulatory and organisational capacity theories, this article seeks to develop a new index to measure the enforcement capacity of these bodies.engPolitical financingRegulation SupervisionEnforcementMeasurementSupervisionjournal article10.1057/s41304-018-0150-2