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Political Theorizing as a Dimension of Political Life
2005
Quentin Skinner’s thesis ‘that political life itself sets the main problems for the political theorist’ marks a turning point in the study of the history of political thought. The Protestant princes who revised Luther’s doctrine of disobedience in order to save Lutheranism as a political force are the best example of this ‘Skinnerian revolution’ in The Foundations of Modern Political Thought. This is in accordance with his claim that principles play a legitimating and innovating role in politics. A tacit implication of the thesis is that we should not only read theorists as politicians but also read politicians as theorists. The politician possesses a special competence in discerning betwe…
Is Podemos a Populist Party? an Analysis of Its Discourse and Political Strategy
2021
On the basis of a thick qualitative study of Podemos’ political communication and strategy since its emergence in the Spanish party system in 2014, this article asks to what extent can it be characterized as a “populist party.” It shows that a populist discourse and strategy has been theorized and used by Pablo Iglesias and the party leaders to “dichotomize” the Spanish political space and allow the emergence of a new political alternative. However, while radical critiques against the elites, the political and economic systems have been activated, Podemos’ discourses and propositions have evolved through its institutionalization process. Thus, Podemos illustrates a typical case of protest p…
What Drives Populist Styles? Analyzing Immigration and Labor Market News in 11 Countries
2019
The success of populist political actors in Western democracies and the dramatization and emotionality of political communication in news media have been the object of several theoretical and empirical studies in the past decade. It has been argued that the mediatization of politics and the convergence of populist and tabloid communication styles foster these developments by mutual promotion in mass communication. This article uses a cross-national quantitative content analysis to disentangle associations among news genres, populist actors, content, and style. In spite of indisputable prevalence of populist styles in tabloid style media, populist ideology is identified as their strongest s…
ESCR Review: Citizenship and Politics
2020
This chapter describes the analyses and results for the ESRC Domain of Citizenship and Politics, guided by two main questions: How digital technology impacts on our autonomy, agency, and privacy; Whether and how our understanding of citizenship is evolving in the digital age. It first provides an initial overview of the major insights from the literature review and analysis, the Delphi surveys, and workshop discussions about the relevant range of the concepts of citizenship and politics in a digital age. Over time the literature shows a shift from issues of public sphere and use of the Internet by government and candidates to more focus on political participation and engagement, especially …
Restrictions on data-driven political micro-targeting in Germany
2017
The revitalisation of canvassing in recent elections is strongly related to campaigns´ growing possibilities for analysing voter data to gain knowledge about their constituents, identifying their most likely voters and serving up personalised messages through individual conversations. The research literature about political micro-targeting hardly ever focusses on campaigns in parliamentary democracies with strict data protection laws. Based on in-depth expert interviews we introduce a framework of constraints in strategic political communication and reveal several restrictions on the macro, meso and micro levels which hinder the implementation of sophisticated data strategies in Germany. We…
Le populisme dans le nouvel espace public médiatisé. L’anomalie italienne de la relation entre la politique et le journalisme
2020
The article focuses on the peculiarities of the contemporary Italian populist parties, referring to the traditional political communication circuit and their recent transfomations.
The culture of communication in the public sector facing the challenge of digital media: an explorative research in Italy and France
2021
The article focuses on the culture of communication in the public sector aiming at understanding its features and transformations facing the challenge of digital media. In the first part, a view of the international literature on communication in the public sector is presented. The strategic role played by communication in the public organizations is underlined as well as the institutionalization of social media in the management of communication with citizens and media. In the second part, a qualitative explorative research is illustrated. The study was conducted in Italy and France and consisted of 10 in-depth interviews with key figures in public sector communication: academics and profe…
Arte e diritti degli animali: una coalizione di protesta eterogenea contro la promozione pubblica di Nitsch
2016
L’intervento analizza il caso di una petizione online e l’evoluzione della protesta, sui social network e nel territorio, all’interno di una composita coalizione sociale. Si tratta della petizione (Change.org 2015), contro la sponsorizzazione da parte del Comune di Palermo della mostra dell’esponente dell’azionismo Viennese Hermann Nitsch che secondo promotori e firmatari violerebbe con le sue performance la Dichiarazione Universale dei Diritti degli Animali (Unesco 1978). La petizione che in breve tempo ha raccolto oltre 70.000 firme rappresenta un interessante esempio di mobilitazione online che travalica i confini nazionali, la protesta, infatti, era partita a Città del Messico un anno p…
Attivisti 5 Stelle a Palermo: un’analisi esplorativa (paper 6.1.1.)
2014
L’intervento presenta i primi risultati di una ricerca esplorativa sugli attivisti del Movimento 5 Stelle (M5S) nella città di Palermo. L’indagine sul meetup palermitano è stata condotta attraverso interviste in profondità, faccia a faccia, a 10 attivisti e a un ex attivista espulso dal M5S . Le interviste hanno permesso di cominciare a delinearne organizzazione, strategie comunicative, attività, problemi attraversati nel tempo. La traccia utilizzata per le interviste è stata elaborata da Roberto Biorcio e condivisa allo scopo di rendere i risultati della ricerca comparabili con quelli delle altre realtà italiane nelle quali è in corso. Lo schema di base è stato integrato con alcuni punti s…
Global Spaces for Local Politics: An Exploratory Analysis of Facebook Ads in Spanish Election Campaigns
2021
[EN] Sponsored content on Facebook has become an indispensable tool for implementing political campaign strategies. However, in political communication research, this channel is still unexplored due to its advertising model in which only target audiences are exposed to sponsored content. The launching of the Facebook Ad Library in May 2018 can be considered a turning point in this regard, inasmuch as it now offers users direct access to ads paid for by political parties, among other advertisers. This paper analyzes some aspects of the strategies implemented by six national parties during the campaigns running up to the two general elections held in Spain in 2019, by performing an analysis o…