Search results for "political parties"

Podemos: Citizen Cyberactivism Reaches European Policy

2015

Internet está democratizando los medios y los sistemas políticos, de manera que rompe el sentido único de la comunicación de masas y refuerza el modelo simétrico bidireccional en el que la comunicación se vuelve universal, omnipresente y libre. A ello han contribuido de manera decisiva las redes sociales, las cuales democratizan la información y permiten a los usuarios participar de forma activa en la red a través de aplicaciones gratuitas de fácil manejo gracias a las cuales dejan de ser meros receptores de información para convertirse en emisores y productores de contenidos. Las comunidades virtuales interconectan a personas con afinidades comunes y por eso se han convertido en una herram…

Civil Society in the 2004 Romanian Elections: Watchdog, Involved Arbiter or Political Actor?

2010

Abstract Civil society has proven outstanding capacities of involvement in the 2004 general elections in Romania and put a remarkable pressure on the political society. This paper aims to discuss the consequences of such involvement for both the political and civil society. We also investigate the conditions that have favoured a successful challenge of the main political actors by the most visible civic advocacy organizations. Further, we inquire how deep can an actor from the civil society go into the lands of the political society. In the end, we weight the achievements and the failures of civil society’s active involvement in the game of elections.

An Overview of Attitude Towards Selected Aspects of Electoral Programs of Polish Political Groups Taking Part in the 2014 Elections to the European P…

2017

Elections to the European Parliament (EP), because of its role in establishing the legal order in member states of the European Union (EU), should become increasingly crucial among all the direct elections in which Poles participate in our country’s political system.  But the results of analyses carried out by various research institutions indicate that, in Polish public opinion, the elections to the EP are the least important in terms of the meaning they have for Poles. Since the start of their organization, these elections have consistently come second (in terms of significance) to domestic elections – Presidential, Parliamentary, and local. Yet these elections, for many reasons, were act…

Los efectos directos y colaterales de la disolución de Herri Batasuna

2005

Alexandre.Catala@uv.es La ilegalización de Herri Batasuna, Euskal Herritarrok y Batasuna (Sentencia del Tribunal Supremo de 27 de marzo de 2003) comportó una serie de consecuencias que son analizadas en el presente trabajo. En primer lugar, la estrategia de presentar en sucesivos comicios (elecciones municipales y autonómicas de 2003, elecciones al Parlamento Europeo de 2004 y elecciones al Parlamento vasco de 2005) agrupaciones electorales que no eran más que continuación de aquéllos con la clara intención de burlar la aplicación de la Ley Orgánica de Partidos Políticos y perpetuar así su actividad. En segundo lugar, la polémica sobre la disolución del grupo parlamentario correspondiente e…

Institutionalization of party systems. A focus on Kurdistan Region of Iraq party system (1991/2016)

2019

ABSTRACT (SPANISH) Este estudio es un análisis cualitativo profundo de la naturaleza de la institucionalización del sistema de partidos en la región de Kurdistán de Iraq. Si bien el desarrollo de sistemas de partidos robustos a menudo se considera crucial para las democracias industriales, los sistemas de partidos en las regiones de Kurdistán, como muchas otras democracias nacientes, se han desarrollado con bastante lentitud. En cambio, la política partidista se caracteriza por una elevada tasa de volatilidad electoral, sólidas relaciones cliente-patrocinador, muchas fragmentaciones, nepotismo y falta de vínculos partidarios entre los electorados y las élites políticas. Esta tesis examina p…

Single-Target Implicit Association Tests (ST-IAT) Predict Voting Behavior of Decided and Undecided Voters in Swiss Referendums

2016

Undecided voters represent a major challenge to political pollsters. Recently, political psychologists have proposed the use of implicit association tests (IAT) to measure implicit attitudes toward political parties and candidates and predict voting behavior of undecided voters. A number of studies have shown that both implicit and explicit (i.e., self-reported) attitudes contribute to the prediction of voting behavior. More importantly, recent research suggests that implicit attitudes may be more useful for predicting the vote of undecided voters in the case of specific political issues rather than elections. Due to its direct-democratic political system, Switzerland represents an ideal pl…

Young Scottish National Party (SNP) Members’ National Identity and Party Membership

2021

Scotland’s future in the United Kingdom seems to be uncertain. Even though a majority of Scottish people voted to remain in the UK in 2014, the EU referendum two years later fuelled the independence movement in Scotland. Scholars show that the Scottish independence referendum encouraged people to join political parties, particularly the Scottish National Party. This work focuses on young people. Party membership scholars agree that they are underrepresented in parties. Given that the SNP seem to be rather successful in appealing to young people, this thesis explores SNP youth membership and the reasons why young Scots make the decision to join the party. It shows that Scottish independence …

Le parti des travailleurs brésilien : de son émergence à la conquête du Planalto (1979 - 2002)

2016

The Brazilian Workers’ Party (PT) is an outstanding experience of a left-wing mass party. When it was born in 1980, many people wondered about its nature. In 2002, when Lula became the President of Brazil, this question did not deserve the same answer. The PT became bureaucratic, institutional and professional, experiencing a sort of accelerated Social-Democratization. As its starting point, this study takes the specificities of labour movement, trade unionism and the dictatorship (1964-1985) in Brazil. The PT originated in 1979-80 from mass social struggles around “authentic” trade unionists (such as Lula), left-wing Catholics, far-left activists, the left-wing intelligentsia and some “pro…

Partie polityczne w wyborach samorządowych w woiewództwie opolskim

2015

Diritti di partecipazione politica e piattaforme digitali, alcune riflessioni

2022

Questo scritto affronta il tema dell’impatto dei social networks sui diritti di partecipazione politica, con riguardo al diritto all’informazione, al diritto di associarsi in partiti, al diritto di voto come esito di campagne elettorali digitali. Il mutamento della comunicazione politica e del dibattito pubblico refluisce sulla correttezza dei processi democratici; ciò pone l’esigenza della regolazione dei social networks quale spazio mediatico utilizzato dai soggetti politici (individui od organizzazioni) per influenzare la formazione dell’opinione pubblica e costruire il consenso a proprio favore, soprattutto nell’ambito delle campagne elettorali. L’articolo si sofferma, dunque, sui probl…