Digital parties: the challenges of online organisation and participation

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Editors and Contributors -- 1 Political Parties Transition into the Digital Era -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Digital Political Participation and Political Parties -- 1.3 Digital Parties: An Emerging Party Model? -- 1.4 The Digitalisation of Political Parties and Its Consequences -- 1.5 Research Questions and Plan of the Book -- References -- 2 The Five-Pillar Model of Parties' Migration into the Digital -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 The Five-Pillar Model of Parties' Migration into the Digital -- 2.3 Current Literature Located in the Five-Pillar Model -- 2.4 Range of Application and Open Questions -- References -- 3 Regulating i-Voting Within Countries and Parties -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Defining i-Voting and Its Legal Framework -- 3.3 How to Analyse the Process of i-Voting in States and Parties on the Basis of the Electoral Cycle -- 3.4 Key Aspects of Democratic Norms Applying to i-Voting -- 3.5 Practices of i-Voting at National Level -- 3.5.1 Estonia -- 3.5.2 Switzerland -- 3.6 Conclusions -- References -- 4 Studying Digital Parties: Methods, Challenges and Responses -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 How Have Parties Traditionally Been Studied? -- 4.3 Methods for Studying Digital Parties -- 4.4 What to Study in Digital Parties? -- 4.5 The Challenge of Studying Digital Parties -- 4.6 Conclusion -- References -- 5 i-Voting Regulation Within Digital Parties: The Case of Podemos and Five Stars Movement -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Democratic and Technical Norms of i-Voting Within Parties -- 5.2.1 Democratic Norms -- 5.2.2 Technical Standards of E-Decision-Making and i-Voting -- 5.3 i-Voting Within Parties -- 5.4 The M5S -- 5.4.1 Regulations -- 5.4.2 Democratic Norms and Technical Standards -- 5.5 Podemos -- 5.5.1 Regulations -- 5.5.2 Democratic Norms and Technical Standards -- 5.6 Discussion and Conclusion -- References.

Chapter I. Political Parties Transition into the Digital Era -- Chapter 2. The Five-Pillar Model of Parties' Migration into the Digital -- Chapter 3. Regulating i-voting within countries and parties -- Chapter 4. Studying Digital Parties: Methods, Challenges and Responses -- Chapter 5. I-voting regulation within digital parties: the case of Podemos and Five Stars Movement -- Chapter 6. Cyber-Parties' Membership Between Empowerment and Pseudo-Participation: The cases of Podemos and the Five Star Movement -- Chapter 7. Anti-Party Digital Parties between Direct and Reactive Democracy. The Case of La France Insoumise -- Chapter 8. How to remain indispensable in the 21st century? The digital adaptation of PSOE and PSP in a crisis context.