The democratic interface: Technology, political organization, and diverging patterns of electoral representation

WL Bennett, A Segerberg… - … , Communication & Society, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Democracies are experiencing historic disruptions affecting how people engage with core
institutions such as the press, civil society organizations, parties, and elections. These …

The devil is in the detail: What do citizens mean when they support stealth or participatory democracy?

JL Fernández-Martínez, J Font Fábregas - Politics, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Recent research on citizen process preferences has highlighted three different models of
decision making: representation, participation and stealth democracy. However, the …

The digital transformation of party membership. How party members perceive online participation and adapt to it under pandemic circumstances

S Ziegler, I Borucki, K Weissenbach - Party Politics, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Analysing the effects of digital transformation on politics is a vast and fast-growing research
field. We contribute to this research by assessing how party members perceive enforced …

Digitalization in Candidate Selection. Support and Resistance Within Established Political Parties in Germany

C Bloquet, I Borucki, B Höhne - Frontiers in Political Science, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The digitalization of human life has impacted many aspects of politics in the last two
decades. Intra-party decision-making is one of them. While new political parties appear to be …

The politics of loyalty: Understanding voters' attitudes after primary elections

F Venturino, A Seddone - Government and Opposition, 2022 - cambridge.org
What happens after primary elections? Strategies of loyalty or defection in general elections
have been addressed by US literature mainly by means of aggregate data. However, we …

Does it pay off? The effects of party leadership elections on parties' trustworthiness and appeal to voters

B Wauters, A Kern - Political Studies, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
In the last few decades, political parties in several Western countries have opened up the
process of leadership selection to all party members. So far, research has mainly focused on …

Populism and democratic attitudes: Comparing populist and non-populist candidates' views on democracy and its alternatives

J Gaio e Silva, M Lisi - Party Politics, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
The rise of new populist parties has raised concerns for representative political systems and
the quality of democracies, by challenging the liberal checks and balances in the name of …

What's on a party member's mind? Voting motives in competitive party leadership elections

B Wauters, N Bouteca, A Kern, A Vandeleene - Representation, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Procedures of party leadership selection have attracted considerable scholarly attention in
recent years, but voting motives of party members in leadership elections have not been fully …

[BOOK][B] Civil Society's Democratic Potential: Organizational Trade-offs Between Participation and Representation

N Bolleyer - 2024 - books.google.com
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International
licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF …

Accepting a party's decision to (not) participate in a coalition government. Does the inclusiveness of the decision-makers make a difference?

L Lingier, A Kern, B Wauters - Journal of Elections, Public Opinion …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
The decision whether or not to participate in a coalition government is crucial for parties
operating in parliamentary democracies using a list-PR system. For party members …