The “rise of global populism” has become a primary metanarrative for the previous decade
in advanced industrial democracies, but I argue that it is a deeply misleading one. Nativism …

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 …

This article advances a new theory of the digital democratic affordance, a concept first
introduced by Lincoln Dahlberg to devise a taxonomy of the democratic capacities of digital …

In this article, we focus on the candidate selection processes of Podemos in Spain and the
Movimento 5 Stelle (M5S–Five Star Movement) in Italy, processes which are related to intra …

The impact of party primaries on turnout at the meso level has been particularly under-
researched. Thus, the aim of this paper is to explore the determinants of turnout on party …

Political parties share a very bad reputation in most European countries. This paper
provides an interpretation of this sentiment, reconstructing the downfall of the esteem in …

The more digital democracy applications lower the costs of political participation, allowing
ordinary citizens to propose their own policy initiatives, the more they increase the burden of …

The recent success of new movement parties in Europe brought the attention of party politics
scholars to this hybrid party type. There are still many under-analysed theoretical and …

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 …

This paper focusses on the use of technology to improve democracy, comparing the cases of
Estonia and Catalonia. Both examples are closely related in their use of technology to …