In principle, one should be able to evaluate national party laws according to whether they facilitate or obstruct party politics. In their 2002 study of “global political campaigning,” Plasser and Plasser evaluated national campaign laws along comparable lines. They amassed a maze of specific rules on the “regulatory framework of campaigns” from 52 countries. To impose some order on the rules they collected, Plasser and Plasser classified countries according to whether campaign practices were “strictly regulated,” “moderately regulated,” or “minimally regulated.” They cite Japan as having “strictly regulated” campaigns, Russia as a country with “moderately regulated” campaigns, and say about “minimally regulated” campaigns: “The most popular example of minimal restrictions of campaign practices are in the United States, but campaigns in Australia, New Zealand and Canada also face only minor restrictions by prevailing electoral laws.”