Platform politics in Latin America: Equalizers, normalizers, laggards, and marginals
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F62690094%3A18460%2F24%3A50021668" target="_blank" >RIV/62690094:18460/24:50021668 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://content.iospress.com/articles/information-polity/ip220073" target="_blank" >https://content.iospress.com/articles/information-polity/ip220073</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/IP-220073" target="_blank" >10.3233/IP-220073</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Platform politics in Latin America: Equalizers, normalizers, laggards, and marginals
Original language description
How has the adoption of internet-based platform politics impacted Latin American party systems? This paper fills an important gap by creating novel categories and tracing patterns for understanding how political parties of 18 Central and South American countries practice politics online. Our work is informed by the equalization versus normalization debate between that sees the Internet as either consolidating institutional parties' strength or giving strategic advantage to new and smaller parties. Our analysis takes a four-step approach to address the initial question. First, we conceptualize platform politics in a Latin American context and generate hypotheses. Second, we create a dataset to map online and offline national party systems across Latin America. Third, we introduce four categories (equalizers, normalizers, laggards, marginals) to capture different parties' online positioning. Last, we explore platform politics by comparing four parties belonging to the different categories - FMLN in El Salvador, Novo in Brazil, PPC in Peru, and MORENA in Mexico - and showing how they use social media to overcome their structural limits. Overall, this work finds great regional variation to extend the validity of the cyclical nature of equalization and normalization to the Latin American context. © 2024 - IOS Press. All rights reserved.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50601 - Political science
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Information Polity: An International Journal of Government and Democracy in the Information Age
ISSN
1570-1255
e-ISSN
1875-8754
Volume of the periodical
29
Issue of the periodical within the volume
3
Country of publishing house
NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS
Number of pages
20
Pages from-to
331-350
UT code for WoS article
001316355400006
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85202785787