RT Journal Article
T1 Mapping the digitalisation of European political parties
A1 Sandri, Giulia
A1 Lupato García, Fabio
A1 Meloni, Marco
A1 von Nostitz, Felix
A1 Barberà, Oscar
AB An increasing number of comparative case studies explore thedrivers and impacts of digital technologies on political parties(Bennet et al., 2018. The democratic interface: Technology,political organization, and diverging patterns of electoralrepresentation. Information Communication & Society, 21(11),1655–1680; Gerbaudo, 2019. The digital party: Politicalorganisation and online democracy. Pluto Press), but a largecomparative account on how parties are changing due todigitalisation is still lacking. Based on the new Digitalisation inParties (DIGIPART) Dataset developed by the authors, this paperaddresses this gap by empirically assessing the use of digitalplatforms and their affordances in 62 parties in five Europeancountries (France, Italy, Germany, United Kingdom and Spain).Building on previous research by Fitzpatrick (2021. The five-pillarmodel of parties’ migration into the digital. In O. Barberà,G. Sandri, P. Correa, & J. Rodríguez-Teruel (Eds.), Digital parties:The challenges of online organisation and participation (pp. 23–42).Springer Nature), the aim is to measure variations in the patternsof digitalisation of party activities, and to preliminary explore therelevance of some systemic and intra-organizational factors inshaping the use of party digital innovations (Lupato & Meloni,2023. Digital intra-party democracy: An exploratory analysis ofPodemos and the Labour Party. Parliamentary Affairs, 76(1), 22–42; Raniolo, Vittori and Tarditi 2021. Political parties and newdigital technologies: Between tradition and innovation. InO. Barberà, G. Sandri, P. Correa, & J. Rodríguez-Teruel (Eds.),Digital parties: The challenges of online organisation andparticipation (pp. 181–204). Springer Nature). The preliminaryresults show that digital solutions are starting to be adopted as afacilitator of internal participation and that larger and olderparties seem to be more digitalised than newer and smaller ones.
PB Routledge, Taylor & Francis
SN 1369-118X
YR 2024
FD 2024
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/104182
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/104182
LA eng
NO Sandri, G., Lupato, F. G., Meloni, M., von Nostitz, F., & Barberà, O. (2024). Mapping the digitalisation of European political parties. Information, Communication & Society, 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2024.2343369
DS Docta Complutense
RD 20 may 2025