Political Parties Transition into the Digital Era

Oscar Barberà; Giulia Sandri; Patricia Correa; Juan Rodríguez-Teruel

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-78668-7_1

Political Parties Transition into the Digital Era

Oscar Barberà, Giulia Sandri, Patricia Correa, Juan Rodríguez-Teruel

Politics, History and International Relations

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This chapter outlines the main dimensions of analysis for assessing how mainstream and new parties are building their digital platforms and transitioning from traditional (offline) organisations into the digital world. So far, most of the academic attention has been focused on the impact of the use of digital technologies on party competition and campaigning, while the intra-organisational dimensions have been significantly under-researched. However, several parties in Europe and around the world, both traditional and digital native, have increasingly used digital technologies such as online platforms for internal decision-making, funding, communication and membership mobilisation. We provide here an innovative analytical framework for empirical exploration of the democratic consequences and technical challenges raised by the digitalization of party organisations from a comparative perspective.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Digital Parties. The Challenges of Online Organisation and Participation
Editors	Oscar Barberà, Giulia Sandri, Patricia Correa, Juan Rodríguez-Teruel
Publisher	Springer
Chapter	1
Pages	1-22
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-030-78668-7
ISBN (Print)	978-3-030-78667-0
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78668-7_1
Publication status	Published - 12 Oct 2021

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Name	Studies in Digital Politics and Governance

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Barberà, O., Sandri, G., Correa, P., & Rodríguez-Teruel, J. (2021). Political Parties Transition into the Digital Era. In O. Barberà, G. Sandri, P. Correa, & J. Rodríguez-Teruel (Eds.), Digital Parties. The Challenges of Online Organisation and Participation (pp. 1-22). (Studies in Digital Politics and Governance). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78668-7_1

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Political Parties Transition into the Digital Era. / Barberà, Oscar; Sandri, Giulia; Correa, Patricia et al.
Digital Parties. The Challenges of Online Organisation and Participation. ed. / Oscar Barberà; Giulia Sandri; Patricia Correa; Juan Rodríguez-Teruel. Springer, 2021. p. 1-22 (Studies in Digital Politics and Governance).

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