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Platform politics: Party organisation in the digital age

Alberto Lioy,Marc Esteve Del Valle,J. Gottlieb

Published 2019 in Inf. Polity

ABSTRACT

This article examines the interaction of organisational and technological changes adopted by parties to respond to members’ demands for more participation. We develop a term, platform politics, and create a framework for identifying how parties use platforms to open or close intra-party decision-making. The framework is then applied to two institutionalised parties (PSOE and PD) and to two movement-based parties (Podemos and M5S) of the changing party systems of Spain and Italy. We conclude that the tensions between existing organisational structures and the use of internet-based platforms create a series of unintended consequences for parties, which result in potentially disruptive outcomes.

PUBLICATION RECORD

  • Publication year

    2019

  • Venue

    Inf. Polity

  • Publication date

    2019-01-04

  • Fields of study

    Computer Science, Political Science

  • Identifiers
    DOI 10.3233/IP-180093
  • External record

    Open on Semantic Scholar

  • Source metadata

    Semantic Scholar

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