Many organizations (including “the country’s largest union, the PSA“, the Human Rights Commission, two teachers unions, and The Law Society) have criticized the still-lingering reforms in New Zealand, arguing in particular that the limitations on third-party spending are too tough and stifle free speech. The major components of the bill are summarized by the NZ [...]

The Statesman writes:
A two day special meeting by the Inter Party Advisory Committee on enhancing public support for political parties in Ghana ended in a deadlock.
Major disagreement is not about whether the state should fund parties, but on the criteria that should be used to disburse the money. It seems disclosure requirements were also discussed, but that [...]

Kostadinova argues in the July 2007 edition of Europe-Asia studies that public funding (and other regulations) influenced the Bulgarian party system. The abstract reads:
This article suggests that a successful explanation of the development of Bulgaria’s post-1989 party system must include the rules governing funding of political organisations. By examining the composition of party incomes and [...]

A couple weeks ago the Dominican Republic’s Participación Ciudadana (PC) held a conference along with state commissions to discuss the state’s funding for political parties, which occurs to a degree that is considered high. PC’s press release (in spanish): http://www.pciudadana.org/noticias/08302007_seminario_financPP.htm

Although it seems that it was at one time allowed, financing of political parties by the state is prohibited by the constitution. Now proposed reforms would allow public financing for parties for elections in proportion to the number of votes they receive. Coverage at El Universal and El Carobobeño (both in spanish).

A forum was held yesterday to consider public funding of political parties in Ghana. A group introduced legislation to fund parties by using some of the proceeds of VAT tax, although the Electoral Commission wished they had been consulted on the proposal.

The Secret Blog of Patrick Manning argues (correctly) that I know little about Trinidad & Tobago and concludes that higher-priced internet access is the only way to prevent foreign ideas about campaign finance reform from contaminating the country. But, a report from the Trinidad & Tobago Express shows contamination has already occured (and probably not because of anyone reading EF, although that really goes [...]

Researching information on Namibia to update the Electoral Systems and the Personal Vote database, I found this EISA report with some information on party funding and disclosure regulations which includes:
Namibia is one of the fourteen African countries that provide public funding to political parties…
This contribution was judged by International IDEA to be too marginal to make [...]

The Nation reports: 
Individuals and companies will be allowed to contribute no more than Bt50 million a year to any single political party, a National Legislative Assembly committee decided yesterday.
According to the XE currency converter, BT50 Million = over 1.5 million dollars (US$1,555,085). That would certainly be one of the (if not the) most permissive limit on contributions in [...]

Before allowing democratic elections, the caretaker government is considering party funding. The BBC writes: 
Election Commission officials say they will meet 15 parties over the next three months to discuss issues such as voter lists and party funding.

An editorial at the Times of Malta mentions deliberations about reform to provide state subsidies to political parties. The Maltese regulatory regime is interesting because it is the only one in the world which requires campaign finance disclosure from individual legislative candidates but not also political parties, or at least this is true among the countries I have [...]

This week two steps were taken towards reducing the amount of money spent in Mexican federal elections.
First, a proposal to reduce the public financing of parties by 50% during presidential elections and reduce the same by 70% during non-concurrent legislative elections was introduced into congress. This initiative also would reduce the length of the official [...]

An editorial in New Vision (and reprinted at AllAfrica.com) begins:

ABOUT half of the registered political parties have not submitted their audited accounts to the Electoral Commission as required by the law, according to the commission’s chairperson, Eng. Badru Kiggundu.
However, Kiggundu has declined to publicly name the political parties that have failed to submit audited accounts [...]

New Jersey’s “trial” public financing system – in which state legislative candidates in three of the 120 districts will be eligible for state funding – is underway for the November election. Newsday.com reports:
This is New Jersey’s second effort at public campaign financing for legislators. A 2005 effort sputtered when the program proved too complicated, but [...]