1st Edition
Refiguring Democracy The Spanish Political Laboratory
Foreword
Introduction
Chapter 1 The transformation of political logics. Beyond the ‘horizontal’ and the ‘vertical’?
‘Vertical’ versus ‘horizontal’
Towards a differentiation of the 15M political repertoire
The 15M political repertoire and the vertical-horizontal theoretical axis
Activists’ responses to the vertical-horizontal axis
Towards a characterisation of 15M
Conclusions
Chapter 2 The emergence of new political parties
From street protests to taking over the institutions
The new parties and digital media
The impact of the new parties on party-based democracy
Conclusions
Chapter 3 The appearance of monitoring as an emerging political dynamic
Monitory democracy: political transformation in communication-saturated societies
Three main fields of monitoring: governmental, civic and shared
Typology of civic monitoring
Conclusions
Chapter 4 Two-way street mediatisation of politics or overturn? The social media communication models of 15M and Podemos
Social media and mainstream media in today’s political communication
The 15M communication model: the relationship between online political activism and the mainstream media
Podemos’ communication model: take on the media without abandoning the networks *
Conclusions: democratic innovations and contributions from the field of political communication
Conclusion: the Spanish political laboratory in action
References
Biography
Ramón A. Feenstra is a lecturer in the Department of Philosophy and Sociology at the Universitat Jaume I of Castellón, Spain.
Andreu Casero-Ripollés is head of the Department of Communication Sciences and associate professor at the Universitat Jaume I of Castelló, Spain.
John Keane is Professor of Politics at the University of Sydney and at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, Germany.
Simon Tormey is a professor at the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Sydney, Australia.
