From Protest to Political Parties: Online Deliberation in New Parties in Spain
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The new parties that emerged following the 15-M movement and against the austerity measures in Spain want to build parties open to the participation and deliberation for all the citizenry. To what extent are these ideals being fulfilled? The aim of this article is to describe and assess some of the main online deliberative processes of the two most important parties, Podemos and Barcelona En Comú, following commonly accepted criteria in the literature for measuring online deliberation. Specifically, we have examined the two most-voted proposals from the online platform Plaza Podemos and the online development of the electoral programme of Barcelona En Comú. Thus, we have conducted a content analysis of 713 (Plaza Podemos) and 563 (Barcelona En Comú) posts. Both platforms meet the structural and technical criteria for fostering deliberation, but the external impact is high only in the case of Barcelona En Comú. The deliberative quality of the communication is good but not the criteria of reflexivity, inclusion and plurality. KEy WORDS online deliberation, deliberative criteria, 15-M, Podemos, Barcelona en comú, Spain Authors Note Rosa Borge Bravo :: Faculty of Law and Political Science, Open University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain :: [email protected] Eduardo Santamarina Sáez :: Independent researcher, Barcelona, Spain :: [email protected] This article is a revised version of a preliminary paper entitled “From protest to political parties: online deliberation in new parties arising in Spain” presented at the Fòrum Rosa Virós, Ernest Lluch Centre, UIMP, Barcelona, Spain, 4 June, 2015. M ED IJ SK E ST U D IJ E M ED IA S TU D IE S 2 01 6 . 7 . ( 14 ) . 10 412 2 105 R. Borge Bravo, E. Santamarina Sáez : FROM PROTEST TO POLITICAL PARTIES: ONLINE DELIBERATION ... IZVORNI ZNANSTVENI RAD / DOI: 10.20901/ms.7.14.8 / PRIMLJENO: 29.02.2016.
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