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This cutting-edge book explores the diverse and contested meanings
of ''citizenship'' in the 21st century, as representative democracy
faces a mounting crisis in the wake of the Digital Age. Luigi
Ceccarini enriches and updates the common notion of citizenship,
answering the question of how it is possible to fully live as a
citizen in a post-modern political community. Employing an
international, multidisciplinary framework, Ceccarini brings
together the findings of continental political philosophy and
history, and contemporary western political science and
communication studies to advance our understanding of political
motivation and participation in the present day. As new
participatory and monitoring dynamics of online citizenship
redefine the very form of public space, this timely book addresses
the values, creativity and aspirations through which social actors
engage with a networked society, making use of technological
innovations and new forms of communication to participate in
post-representative politics. A provocative call to action in an
era defined by distrust, disillusionment and digitization, this
book is crucial reading for scholars and researchers of political
science, sociology and communication studies, particularly those
seeking a thoroughly modern understanding of digital citizenship.
It will also benefit advanced political science students in need of
a historical overview of the concept of citizenship and how it has
developed under the auspices of the Internet.
Italian politics has changed course yet again. Thanks to the
outcome of the 2022 general election, a coalition dominated, for
the first time, by a party of the far right has taken office under
Giorgia Meloni, the first woman to serve as prime minister in
Italy’s republican history. Italy has always been a kind of
‘political laboratory’ for Western democracies – one in which
new political phenomena have developed with considerable potency.
Consequently, the electoral analyses presented in this book make it
possible for the reader to understand the challenges and related
consequences that established democracies are currently facing,
beyond Italy.
This volume employs a comparative approach to cast light on
representation and representative processes from a communications
perspective. It focuses on online constituency communication,
aiming to provide a perspective from which to empirically study the
changes taking place in the relationship between citizens and their
representatives. The (hyper)mediatisation of politics and society
is here considered a relevant enabling factor, because it creates
the conditions leading to change in the nature of democratic
processes. The chapters discuss Podemos, the Lega, Law and Justice,
and the Five-star Movement as good examples of this phenomenon.
Populist and nationalist forces have emerged as bottom-up and
top-down entities aiming to embody the will of the people, or to
push for democratic processes to be more inclusive. Until now,
however, the intersection between populist and nationalist
discourses and the related question of representation have been
largely ignored. By analysing the transformations that have taken
place in MPs’ communication practices in non-election periods,
the contributors illuminate how social media is affecting MPs’
communication and examine the strains in the relationship between
executives and legislatures that populist and nationalist parties
exploit.
This volume employs a comparative approach to cast light on
representation and representative processes from a communications
perspective. It focuses on online constituency communication,
aiming to provide a perspective from which to empirically study the
changes taking place in the relationship between citizens and their
representatives. The (hyper)mediatisation of politics and society
is here considered a relevant enabling factor, because it creates
the conditions leading to change in the nature of democratic
processes. The chapters discuss Podemos, the Lega, Law and Justice,
and the Five-star Movement as good examples of this phenomenon.
Populist and nationalist forces have emerged as bottom-up and
top-down entities aiming to embody the will of the people, or to
push for democratic processes to be more inclusive. Until now,
however, the intersection between populist and nationalist
discourses and the related question of representation have been
largely ignored. By analysing the transformations that have taken
place in MPs' communication practices in non-election periods, the
contributors illuminate how social media is affecting MPs'
communication and examine the strains in the relationship between
executives and legislatures that populist and nationalist parties
exploit.
This book provides a lively and comprehensive account of the
unprecedented Italian general election of 2018 and of its profound
significance for Italy and beyond. The contributions in this volume
cover the political, economic and international contexts in which
the vote took place, and consider the main election contenders in
the run-up to the election as well as the campaigns. The book
further examines the election outcome, analysing the votes and
discussing the impact of the election on the turnover of
parliamentary personnel as well as examining the outcome from the
viewpoint of government formation.
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