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Five Stars and a Cricket. Beppe Grillo Shakes Italian Politics
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The Five Star Movement as discussed by the authors is a new political player that combines an online and an offline presence, but a top-down decision-making process; it is positioned beyond ideologies, while its electorate comes from various political families.Abstract:
The article focuses on a new political player: the Five Star Movement led by the comedian Beppe Grillo. The party lies at the junction between different organisational models and conceptions of democracy: it combines an online and an offline presence; it has ‘horizontal’ structural elements, but a top-down decision-making process; it is positioned ‘beyond’ ideologies, while its electorate comes from various political families. The work considers the history, message, leader, organisation and electoral base of the movement, as well as the political opportunity structure that facilitated its growth in 2012 and the challenges it faces in the delicate phase of institutionalisation.read more
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TL;DR: In this article, Manin argues that representative government should be understood as a combination of democratic and undemocratic, aristocratic elements, in which citizens elect representatives only because they cannot assemble and govern in person.
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Information and American Democracy: Technology in the Evolution of Political Power
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The Life and Death of Democracy
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Democracies and the Populist Challenge
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TL;DR: Meny and Surel as discussed by the authors made sense of Populism taking politics to the people, as the ideology of democracy, and compared national and international cases of popular dissatisfaction with democracy.