Direct and Digital Democracy in the Ideology and Politics of the Five Star Movement
- Autores: Vakhrushev I.1
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Afiliações:
- RANEPA Department of General History
- Edição: Nº 1 (122) (2024)
- Páginas: 194‒205
- Seção: Articles
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/0201-7083/article/view/255667
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.31857/S0201708324010157
- ID: 255667
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The article analyses the role of direct and e-democracy in the ideology and political practice of the Italian populist party Five Star Movement (M5S). Founded as a party in 2009, Movement stood out among European populists with its pronounced leftgreen agenda aimed at solving local problems of an urban nature. However, an even more remarkable feature of the Five Stars has become an equally clearly noticeable technoutopianism mixed with direct democracy, which argues for the need to expand democratic participation for ordinary citizens through the tools of direct democracy and digital technologies. Based on the study of primary sources (party documents, Beppe Grillo's blog and the official party blog), as well as text media materials, an attempt is made to trace how during two periods of activity of Five Star Movement in 2013–2022 the attitude of the party leaders to the role of direct and electronic democracy in the political activity of Five Stars gradually changed. The article analyses changes in Five Star Movement’s organisational structure and tools of the e-democracy in the course of the development of the party and its institutionalisation into the Italian party-political system. The article concludes that with the process of Five Stars’ incorporation into the political regime, the party has pushed technoutopianism out of its agenda and practice, strengthening party centralisation. Thus, innovative practices in the digitalisation of the political process did not lead to a real expansion of democratic participation, but were subordinated to a party discipline.
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I. Vakhrushev
RANEPA Department of General History
Email: vakhrushev.ivan@yandex.ru
PhD candidate Moscow, Russia
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