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Monday 13:30 - 15:15 CEST (04/09/2023)
Political Parties are key actors in the development of state-citizen relationships and therefore help shaping the political culture defined as “the particular distribution of patterns of orientation toward political objects among the members of the nation” (Almond/Verba 1963 14f.) Digital parties (Barberà et al. 2021) were often charged with high expectations to create a strong connection between citizens and the state through digital means. Web-based technologies hold the potential to deepen intra-party democracy or even extent participation to other citizens “Beyond Party Members” (Scarrow 2014). Yet, we observe no successful, digital party in most European countries but rather parties who semi-digitalize. So are digital parties an historical artefact of the 2010s or do we see limited versions of them? In the study of democratic systems, sub-types are discussed to describe real-life democracies in contrast to ideal types. Diminished sub-types (Collier/Levitsky 1997) are especially interesting in this regard, because ideal criteria are not met to the fullest. This panel transfers this idea into party research and explores whether these sub-types exist and how they can be assessed: What aspects do parties move online? What determinants make them stay partially offline? What are the factors that can favor processes of organizations’ de-digitalization? Papers might be inspired e.g. by path dependency or process tracing and provide evidence from European countries or beyond.
| Title | Details |
|---|---|
| Democratic Procedures or Corporate Structure? Analysis of the Digital Background of the Czech Pirate Party | View Paper Details |
| Extreme-Right in Spain: An analysis of the internal communication of the VOX party through DeepLearning | View Paper Details |
| Beyond digital utopianism: civic culture and visions of political participation among Five Star Movement activists | View Paper Details |
| Instagramming politics: Analyzing politicians’ day-to-day activities on social media | View Paper Details |