Digital Political Campaigning: Regulation and Consequences

Abstract

The development of digital campaigning over the past years across the globe has brought regulatory challenges for policy makers but also organisational, behavioural and attitudinal changes from the side of consumers and promoters of digital campaigning. What are the implications of digital political campaigning at the individual, national and trans-national level? This panel discusses the regulation of digital political campaigning from various angles at the transnational level (European Union), national level (Australia, US, Germany), organisational level (digital platforms such as Google, Twitter and Facebook) and individual level (party members and party activists behaviour and activities). Who (which level of party organisation) organises digital campaigning? How effective is the national and transnational regulation of digital campaigning? Are digital platforms responsive to national and transnational regulation of digital campaigning? Is digital campaigning changing the on-line behaviour of party members and sympathisers? More specifically, the papers discuss theoretic principles which should guide democratic regulation of digital politics, the effectiveness of such regulation at the EU level and the involvement of party members, activists and supporters in the process of digital campaigning. Finally, the panel will assess how the on-line platforms respond to the regulatory regimes they encounter in this field.

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