Innovations, Reinvented Politics and Representative Democracy

ISBN-13: 9780367134129 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 214 str.

Agnes Alexandre-Collier; Alexandra Goujon; Guillaume Gourgues

Opis

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.

Spis treści

1. Do Political Innovations Matter? Representative democracy at a crossroads  Part I: Elite selection Stream  2. A New Political Elite in France: The end of professionalization?  3. Does Party Democracy Impact American Politics? The Rise of the Amateur Republican during the 2016 US Presidential Cycle  4. Primary Elections for Party Leadership in Italy: A Democratic innovation?  5. Experimenting with Open Non-Partisan Primaries: LaPrimaire.org (2016-2017)  Part II: Governance Stream  6. An Undying Breed? The Electoral Mobilization of Supporters’ Networks by the Conservative and Labour Parties in the UK  7. Political Innovation and Democratic Participation within Podemos in Spain  8. A ‘Popular Democracy’ without People? Citizens’ Distant Support for ‘Participatory Governance’ in a French town  9. Privatizing or Renewing Politics? Para-partisan groups in the United States  10. Experimenting Local Civic Activism in Ukraine: The case study of Strong Communities  Part III: Technological Stream  11. Tweeting Back: Innovative Political Contestation in Viral Posts on Twitter during the 2017 French Presidential Elections  12. Can Big Data Reinvigorate Political Participation? The Case of the French presidential electoral campaign in 2017  13. The Digital Mobilization of the Discord Community Supporting Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s La France Insoumise and Beppe Grillo’s Five Stars Movement  14. Conclusion: Lessons to draw from the comparison