A5051723262- Social Media and Politics
- Electoral Systems and Political Participation
- Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development
- Populism, Right-Wing Movements
- Microfinance and Financial Inclusion
- FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance
- Design Education and Practice
- Complex Systems and Decision Making
- Digital Games and Media
- E-Government and Public Services
- Information Systems Theories and Implementation
- Educational Games and Gamification
University of Rome Tor Vergata
2024
University of Southampton
2023-2024
University of Coimbra
2021
An increasing number of comparative case studies explore the drivers and impacts digital technologies on political parties (Bennet et al., 2018. The democratic interface: Technology, organization, diverging patterns electoral representation. Information Communication & Society, 21(11), 1655–1680; Gerbaudo, 2019. party: Political organisation online democracy. Pluto Press), but a large account how are changing due to digitalisation is still lacking. Based new Digitalisation in Parties...
Our paper investigates the drivers of party digitalisation, measuring influence environmental factors, inter-party competition and characteristics on utilisation digital tools. The main innovation this is to propose a measurement digitalisation that classifies processes according their functions goals: an internal dimension oriented towards participation members’ engagement, external focused communication campaigning. Data has been extracted from DIGIPART database parties’ procedures by...
Abstract The role of technology is growing in intra-party democracy (IPD) processes. This article presents a proposal for analysing digital IPD, by applying empirical democratic theory dimensions. To test our methodology, we analyse two different types parties, new one, Pos, and traditional one undergoing reform, the Labour Party. Our analysis shows, first, that application not neutral, with differential impact depending on specific dimension considered and, secondly, that—due to convergent...
Crowdfunding and micro-donations for funding political campaigns have been extensively studied, especially in the US. However, digital participatory financing Europe, with a different regulatory context relevant public funding, has investigated less. This article analyses effects of an innovative digital-native electoral campaign tool: microcredit. Microcredits consist small "civil loans" that party requests from sympathizers to finance party's campaign. Based on case study Spanish Podemos –...
While the digitalisation of political parties is increasingly analysed, less attention has been paid to evolution digital procedures and their consequences on intra-party democracy party change. We propose a typology for identifying different types processes (consolidation, reconfiguration, mutation, elimination) using Spanish Podemos paradigmatic case. Our analysis points out centrality hard soft setbacks in party. Findings indicate relevance dynamics, such as institutionalisation,...