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Innovations, reinvented politics and representative democracy

"This volume focuses on the issue of change in democratic politics in terms of experimental or actual innovations introduced either within political parties or outside the party system, involving citizen participation and mobilization. Including a wide and diverse range of alternatives in the o...

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Other Authors: Alexandre, Agnès (Editor), Goujon, Alexandra (Editor), Gourgues, Guillaume (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group 2020
Series:Democratization studies
Subjects:
Representative government and representation
Democracy
Political participation
Political parties
Political culture
Digital media > Political aspects
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Table of Contents:
  • Do political innovations matter? Representative democracy at a crossroads / Agnès Alexandre-Collier, Alexandra Goujon and Guillaume Gourgues
  • A new political elite in France : the end of professionalization? / Dominique Andolfatto
  • Does party democracy impact American politics? The rise of the amateur Republican during the 2016 US presidential cycle / François Vergniolle De Chantal
  • Primary elections for party leadership in Italy : a democratic innovation? / Giulia Sandri, Antonella Seddone and Fabio Sozzi
  • Experimenting with open non-partisan primaries : LaPrimaire.org (2016-2017) / Rémi Lefebvre
  • An undying breed? The electoral mobilization of supporters' networks by the Conservative and Labour Parties in the UK / Agnès Alexandre-Collier and Emmanuelle Avril
  • Political innovation and democratic participation within Podemos in Spain / Mathieu Petithomme
  • A 'popular democracy' without people? Citizens' distant support for 'participatory governance' in a French town / Guillaume Gourgues and Clément Mabi
  • Privatizing or renewing politics? Para-partisan groups in the United States / Alix Meyer
  • Experimenting local civic activism in Ukraine : the case study of strong communities / Alexandra Goujon
  • Tweeting back : innovative political contestation in viral posts on twitter during the 2017 French presidential elections / Alex Frame and Gilles Brachotte
  • Can big data reinvigorate political participation? The case of the French presidential electoral campaign in 2017 / Anaïs Théviot
  • The digital mobilization of the discord community supporting Jean-Luc Mélenchon's La France Insoumise and Beppe Grillo's Five Stars Movement / Paola Sedda
  • Conclusion: Lessons to draw from the comparison / Anika Gauja

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