Digital Parties

Oscar Barberà is an Associate Professor at the University of Valencia (Spain). His main areas of interest are party politics, decentralization, digitalization, and political elites both in Spain and Europe. Giulia Sandri is an Associate Professor at the Catholic University of Lille (France). Her research focuses on party politics, digital politics, quality of democracy, and political behavior.Patricia Correa is a Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at Aston University (Birmingham, UK). Her research focuses on political parties, activism, digitalization, and territorial politics. Juan Rodríguez-Teruel is an Associate Professor at the University of Valencia (Spain).  His main areas of research are political elites, digitalization, and party politics.

• Chapter I. Political Parties Transition into the Digital Era.- Chapter 2. The Five-Pillar Model of Parties’ Migration into the Digital.- Chapter 3. Regulating i-voting within countries and parties.- Chapter 4. Studying Digital Parties: Methods, Challenges and Responses.- Chapter 5. I-voting regulation within digital parties: the case of Podemos and Five Stars Movement.- Chapter 6. Cyber-Parties’ Membership Between Empowerment and Pseudo-Participation: The cases of Podemos and the Five Star Movement.- Chapter 7. Anti-Party Digital Parties between Direct and Reactive Democracy. The Case of La France Insoumise.- Chapter 8. How to remain indispensable in the 21st century? The digital adaptation of PSOE and PSP in a crisis context.