Direct parliamentarianism: An analysis of the political values embedded in Rousseau, the" operating system" of the Five Star Movement

M Deseriis - 2017 Conference for E-Democracy and open …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article focuses on the technological affordances and use of Rousseau, the decision-
making platform of the second largest Italian political party, the Five Star Movement …

Primary elections and party grassroots: participation, innovation and resistance

A Seddone, G Sandri - European Political Science, 2021 - Springer
Drawing upon both the “party democratization” and “decline in party membership” literature,
this paper explores how party members perceive the introduction of primary elections as …

Party organization and intra-party democracy in Italy

G Sandri, F Venturino - Contemporary Italian Politics, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
In this article, we discuss the features and consequences of intra-party democracy (IPD) in
Italian parties in the last two decades. We start by mapping the democratic innovations in …

i-Voting Regulation Within Digital Parties: The Case of Podemos and Five Stars Movement

F von Nostitz, G Sandri - Digital Parties: The Challenges of Online …, 2021 - Springer
Over the past decades, digital technologies have developed into tools of political
deliberation and decision-making by the state and parties alike (Chadwick, 2007, 2012; Koc …

Understanding how political parties in Europe select their leaders: The Italian case

G Sandri, A Seddone - Managing Leader Selection in European Political …, 2021 - Springer
The Italian second republic—inaugurated with the 1994 parliamentary election—has been
characterised by an alternation of two separate and mixed electoral systems, personalised …