A digital principal? Substantive representation in the case of the Italian Five Star Movement

IF 2.3 1区社会学 Q2 SOCIOLOGY

European Societies Pub Date : 2022-12-12 DOI:10.1080/14616696.2022.2144638

Lorenzo Mosca, Davide Vittori

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Abstract

ABSTRACT One of the main ‘promises’ that populist parties seek to deliver is to bring politics closer to the ‘people’. While the literature focused mainly on the relationship between voters and those parties, less attention has been given to the role of members’ priorities in shaping parties’ legislative activity. In this paper, we focus on a paradigmatic technopopulist case, the Italian Five Star Movement (FSM): one of the founding trademarks of the party was the involvement of the members in the party activities via a digital platform. FSM’s digital platform included participative digital law-making features, which matched member priorities and élite policymaking. We built an original dataset which comprises the law-making activities of members and parliamentarians from 2013 to 2019. We analysed 2000 law proposals and found that FSM elected representatives’ agenda, albeit partly diverging from that of members, still changed in the direction of member priorities through time.

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数字校长?在意大利五星运动案中担任实质性代表

民粹主义政党寻求兑现的主要“承诺”之一是让政治更贴近“人民”。虽然文献主要集中在选民和这些政党之间的关系，但很少注意到成员的优先事项在塑造政党立法活动中的作用。在本文中，我们关注的是一个典型的技术民粹主义案例，即意大利五星运动党(FSM):该党的创始标志之一是成员通过数字平台参与党的活动。FSM的数字平台包括参与式数字立法功能，这与成员的优先事项和薪金政策制定相匹配。我们建立了一个原始数据集，其中包括2013年至2019年的议员和议员的立法活动。我们分析了2000项法律提案，发现FSM选举代表的议程，尽管部分偏离了成员的议程，但随着时间的推移，仍然朝着成员优先考虑的方向变化。

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European Societies SOCIOLOGY-

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15.70

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1.20%

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