This article focuses on the impact of online participation platforms on the internal
organization and democracy of a set of emerging political parties such as the Five Star …

A number of Western European countries have recently seen the emergence of 'digital
parties'. This term refers to a new wave of political organisations committed to transforming …

The aim of this paper is to evaluate the participation of the membership in new digital
parties, ie, Five Stars Movement and Podemos. Following the pioneering example of the …

ABSTRACT The Pirate Party of Germany (PPG) and the Italian 5-Star Movement (5SM) are
two digital movement parties that share several ideological features, including their roots in …

Recently, digital technologies have become part of the daily life of parties. The vanguard in
the implementation of digital tools within party organisation is represented by Podemos in …

The article examines the impact of two online participation platforms on the internal party
democracy (IPD) of the Five Star Movement (5SM) in Italy and Podemos in Spain. The article …

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 …

Digital technologies have been considered as generating new opportunities to enhance
democratic politics. However, political parties have generally been latecomers in …

Since its founding and throughout all its developmental stages, the Movimento Cinque Stelle
(M5S) has been characterised, among Italian parties, by its reliance on the Web as a tool for …

This chapter outlines the main dimensions of analysis for assessing how mainstream and
new parties are building their digital platforms and transitioning from traditional (offline) …