Oscar Barberá Aresté
Biographic Data
| ID | 4253971 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Oscar Barberá Aresté |
| GIVEN NAMES | Oscar Barberá |
| FAMILY NAME | Aresté |
| SIGNATURE | ARESTÉ O B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universitat de València |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2424-2605 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 121 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 27 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Decentralization and environmental governance
Subnational governance levels play a pivotal role in biodiversity protection, as evidenced in multilevel democracies over recent decades. Yet while research on decentralization’s impact on environmental governance has expanded, it remains unclear whether granting regional authorities greater self-rule has improved biodiversity outcomes in coastal areas. To address this gap, this study employs a qualitative research design to assess Spain’s decent…
The determinants of turnout in intra-party referendums
The democratization of party leaders and candidates has garnered significant attention in recent decades across various countries. However, the comparative literature has devoted less attention to other internal party democratic innovations such as party internal referendums. So far, scholarly research has focused on case studies describing the rules and main features of such events, while participation remains largely unexplored. This paper aims…
Mapping the digitalisation of European political parties
An increasing number of comparative case studies explore the drivers and impacts of digital technologies on political parties (Bennet et al., 2018. The democratic interface: Technology, political organization, and diverging patterns of electoral representation. Information Communication & Society, 21(11), 1655–1680; Gerbaudo, 2019. The digital party: Political organisation and online democracy. Pluto Press), but a large comparative account on how…
A pandemic affair? Digital party conferences in Spain
The COVID-19 pandemic forced parties to face a critical dilemma between freezing their internal processes indefinitely or adapting themselves to sometimes unexplored online formats. Amongst the most affected activities were party congresses. This paper contributes to the scholar debate on critical junctures and party reform, examining how changes on the environment can drive parties to transform their organisational practices and innovate on thei…
When do parties go digital? Examining the drivers of internal and external party digitalisation
Our paper investigates the drivers of party digitalisation, measuring the influence of environmental factors, inter-party competition and party characteristics on the utilisation of digital tools. The main innovation of this paper is to propose a measurement of digitalisation that classifies digital processes according to their functions and goals: an internal dimension oriented towards participation and members’ engagement, and an external dimen…
The flip side of digital technologies in internal party elections
Political Parties and the Use of Digitalization in Daily Politics
This special issue examines how digital tools influence the characteristics and functions of political parties by looking at three specific dimensions: intra‐party communication, attitudes towards digitalization, and the use of digital tools in different institutional arenas. It advances our understanding of party digitalization in three significant ways. First, the collection of articles aims to shift the focus of party digitalization to everyda…
The use of party websites for political information among Spanish party activists
Scholars have shown that activists use the Internet for political purposes more often than passive rank-and-file members. Previous research indicates activists engage in different types of activities and with various levels of intensity. However, it is unclear to what extent such modes of party activism are linked to different uses of digital resources. Our paper contributes to the existing research by explaining what drives party website usage a…
Las carreras políticas de los jefes de gobierno regionales en España, Francia y el Reino Unido (1980-2010)
El objetivo de este trabajo es conocer los efectos de la descentralizaciónpolítica en la élite política regional. Nos preguntamos si se estáproduciendo una bifurcación respecto a la élite nacional, de tal modoque se manifi este un predominio de carreras locales o regionales frentea carreras nacionales. Para ello, realizamos una descripción de las carreraspolíticas de los jefes de gobiernos regionales de España, Franciay Reino Unido y establecemos…
Approaching the Unknown. The Covid-19 pandemic, political parties and digital adaptations
During COVID-19 politics was radically transformed. Even though parliaments, parties, and parliamentary groups continued working, they did so mainly through digital means. Our aim is to investigate how political parties and their élites reacted to those changes. For this aim, we launched a pilot survey among party élites in Spain and Italy. We use descriptive statistics and multivariate OLS regressions to answer to our research questions. Our res…
Party primaries and turnout
The impact of party primaries on turnout at the meso level has been particularly under-researched. Thus, the aim of this paper is to explore the determinants of turnout on party primaries by employing an original dataset comprising over 300 selection processes of candidates and leaders in Spain from 1991 to 2021 at both the national and regional level. One of our main findings suggests, in line with what has been affirmed by previous literature, …
La reestructuració de la competició electoral a la Comunitat Valenciana (2011-2019)
La competició electoral a la Comunitat Valenciana generalment s’ha articulat amb base en els eixos esquerra-dreta i la identitat nacional (p. ex. Martín Cubas, 2007). Encara que la identitat dels electors ha romàs generalment estable, sí que s’han produït alguns canvis entre 2011 i 2019 que, possiblement, han facilitat l’emergència de partits polítics nous. El propòsit principal del text és mostrar en quina mesura s’han produït canvis en els espa…
Digital Parties
International audience
El efecto austeridad. El activismo de partido en Europa durante la Gran Recesión
El artículo analiza la evolución de la afiliación y el activismo partidista en Europa en los últimos veinte años. Tenemos dos objetivos principales. En primer lugar, proporcionamos una nueva tipología de los diferentes modos de vinculación a los partidos políticos. De acuerdo con el modelo de afiliación multi-speed de Susan Scarrow, abogamos por una re-conceptualización del activismo de partido que lo separe de la afiliación formal. Basándonos en…
Adiós a los activistas todoterreno? Un análisis de conglomerados del activismo de partido en España
Este artículo tiene como objetivo identificar diferentes modos de participación entre los miembros más activos dentro de los partidos políticos y explorar las razones detrás de esta variación. Las investigaciones previas se han centrado en la posición jerárquica de los miembros según su vinculación a la organización, para explicar diferentes tipos de activismo. Sin embargo, se ha prestado menos atención a la variación horizontal entre los activis…
The PSOE’s deliberation and democratic innovations in turbulent times for the social democracy
In the midst of the great recession, the Spanish Socialists Worker’s Party (PSOE) lost the Government and experienced a process of instability while trying to reconnect with its electorate. The party’s strategic response was embracing highly inclusive deliberations on both key institutional and policy issues that eventually sparked tensions and division. These internal debates led to the introduction and implementation of other democratic innovat…
Podemos’ and Ciudadanos’ multi-level institutionalization challenges
Spain steals from us!’ The ‘populist drift’ of Catalan regionalism
New parties’ linkages with external groups and civil society in Spain
The aim of this article is to assess the linkages between the Spanish new parties with groups and civil society. After outlining a short framework on the new linkages between parties and external groups in times of social and political unrest and discussing the case selection, it briefly introduces the classic patterns of interaction between Spain’s mainstream parties, the PP and the PSOE and the main interest groups since the late 1970s. Then, t…
Ho volem tot! La CUP y la articulación del independentismo de izquierda radical en Cataluña
This article analyses the political and organizational evolution of the Candidatura d’Unitat Popular (Popular Unity Candidature, CUP), a secessionist and radical left party from Catalonia that has been widely featured as a movement party (e. g., Kitschelt, 2006). The main aims of the article are to assess its main features, and to point out the factors that might contribute to understand why this party has been able to adapt itself without major …
Les méthodes de sélection des candidats et leur influence sur le profil des têtes de listes lors des élections régionales en Espagne1
Cet article examine quelques-unes des principales conséquences politiques des méthodes de sélection des candidats régionaux en Espagne. Pour ce faire, les hypothèses théoriques sur les modes de sélection des candidats au niveau national sont revisitées et une plus grande attention est portée à l’influence combinée du degré d’inclusivité et de décentralisation. L’article explore les règles de sélection des candidats ainsi que le profil de ces dern…
Fast and Furious
After a stunning breakthrough in the 2014 European election, Podemos became the third largest parliamentary party in Spain in the 2016 general election and achieved representation in all regions. This article examines how Podemos has adapted to the opportunities and dilemmas posed by Spain's multi-level setting in several ways: its formation in early 2014 and its evolution since; its ideological principles and policy menu; its organisation; and i…
The Carrot and the Stick
Party regulation in new democracies in general, and in the Spanish political system in particular, has not been a matter of concern until very recently. The empirical part explores the impact such regulation has had on the Spanish party system as well as on the life of its party organisations
Se han hecho más democráticos los partidos en España? La evolución en las reglas de elección del líder (1977-2008)
En este trabajo, los autores verifican si, entre 1977 y 2008, ha habido un aumento de la democracia interna en los principales partidos políticos españoles. Para ello, analizan el proceso de selección del líder, al tiempo que cuestionan si ha habido un incremento de la igualdad en la participación para elegirlo, favoreciendo sistemas representativos o de elección directa. El artículo plantea también la hipótesis de si el grado de igualdad en las …
A new political elite in Western Europe? The political careers of regional prime ministers in newly decentralised countries
Fast and Furious
After a stunning breakthrough in the 2014 European election, Podemos became the third largest parliamentary party in Spain in the 2016 general election and achieved representation in all regions. This article examines how Podemos has adapted to the opportunities and dilemmas posed by Spain's multi-level setting in several ways: its formation in early 2014 and its evolution since; its ideological principles and policy menu; its organisation; and i…
Spain steals from us!’ The ‘populist drift’ of Catalan regionalism
A new political elite in Western Europe? The political careers of regional prime ministers in newly decentralised countries
New parties’ linkages with external groups and civil society in Spain
The aim of this article is to assess the linkages between the Spanish new parties with groups and civil society. After outlining a short framework on the new linkages between parties and external groups in times of social and political unrest and discussing the case selection, it briefly introduces the classic patterns of interaction between Spain’s mainstream parties, the PP and the PSOE and the main interest groups since the late 1970s. Then, t…
The Carrot and the Stick
Party regulation in new democracies in general, and in the Spanish political system in particular, has not been a matter of concern until very recently. The empirical part explores the impact such regulation has had on the Spanish party system as well as on the life of its party organisations
The PSOE’s deliberation and democratic innovations in turbulent times for the social democracy
In the midst of the great recession, the Spanish Socialists Worker’s Party (PSOE) lost the Government and experienced a process of instability while trying to reconnect with its electorate. The party’s strategic response was embracing highly inclusive deliberations on both key institutional and policy issues that eventually sparked tensions and division. These internal debates led to the introduction and implementation of other democratic innovat…
Adiós a los activistas todoterreno? Un análisis de conglomerados del activismo de partido en España
Este artículo tiene como objetivo identificar diferentes modos de participación entre los miembros más activos dentro de los partidos políticos y explorar las razones detrás de esta variación. Las investigaciones previas se han centrado en la posición jerárquica de los miembros según su vinculación a la organización, para explicar diferentes tipos de activismo. Sin embargo, se ha prestado menos atención a la variación horizontal entre los activis…
The flip side of digital technologies in internal party elections
The use of party websites for political information among Spanish party activists
Scholars have shown that activists use the Internet for political purposes more often than passive rank-and-file members. Previous research indicates activists engage in different types of activities and with various levels of intensity. However, it is unclear to what extent such modes of party activism are linked to different uses of digital resources. Our paper contributes to the existing research by explaining what drives party website usage a…
Las carreras políticas de los jefes de gobierno regionales en España, Francia y el Reino Unido (1980-2010)
El objetivo de este trabajo es conocer los efectos de la descentralizaciónpolítica en la élite política regional. Nos preguntamos si se estáproduciendo una bifurcación respecto a la élite nacional, de tal modoque se manifi este un predominio de carreras locales o regionales frentea carreras nacionales. Para ello, realizamos una descripción de las carreraspolíticas de los jefes de gobiernos regionales de España, Franciay Reino Unido y establecemos…
Approaching the Unknown. The Covid-19 pandemic, political parties and digital adaptations
During COVID-19 politics was radically transformed. Even though parliaments, parties, and parliamentary groups continued working, they did so mainly through digital means. Our aim is to investigate how political parties and their élites reacted to those changes. For this aim, we launched a pilot survey among party élites in Spain and Italy. We use descriptive statistics and multivariate OLS regressions to answer to our research questions. Our res…
Party primaries and turnout
The impact of party primaries on turnout at the meso level has been particularly under-researched. Thus, the aim of this paper is to explore the determinants of turnout on party primaries by employing an original dataset comprising over 300 selection processes of candidates and leaders in Spain from 1991 to 2021 at both the national and regional level. One of our main findings suggests, in line with what has been affirmed by previous literature, …
El efecto austeridad. El activismo de partido en Europa durante la Gran Recesión
El artículo analiza la evolución de la afiliación y el activismo partidista en Europa en los últimos veinte años. Tenemos dos objetivos principales. En primer lugar, proporcionamos una nueva tipología de los diferentes modos de vinculación a los partidos políticos. De acuerdo con el modelo de afiliación multi-speed de Susan Scarrow, abogamos por una re-conceptualización del activismo de partido que lo separe de la afiliación formal. Basándonos en…
Los partidos de ámbito no estatal en Aragón
L’objectiu d’aquest article consisteix a mostrar succintament les trajectòries polítiques i organitzatives dels dos principals partits d’àmbit no estatal a l’Aragó: el Partido Aragonés (PAR) i la Chunta Aragonesista (CHA). Per fer-ho, s’emfatitza la importància que els canvis en l’entorn, especialment l’electoral, han tingut en la vida interna de tots dos partits, i també la similitud de totes dues trajectòries, marcades per un creixement inicial…
Los orígenes de la Unión del Pueblo Navarro (1979-1991)
L’objectiu d’aquest article és contribuir a fer comprensibles els orígens i les primeres transformacions organitzatives de la Unión del Pueblo Navarro (UPN). Aquest treball pretén establir si el model de partit que caracteritza l’UPN és més a prop dels partits professionals electorals que sorgeixen a Europa amb la tercera onada democratitzadora o del model de partit de masses que històricament ha caracteritzat els partits regionalistes a Europa. …
A new political elite in Western Europe? The political careers of regional prime ministers in newly decentralised countries
Se han hecho más democráticos los partidos en España? La evolución en las reglas de elección del líder (1977-2008)
En este trabajo, los autores verifican si, entre 1977 y 2008, ha habido un aumento de la democracia interna en los principales partidos políticos españoles. Para ello, analizan el proceso de selección del líder, al tiempo que cuestionan si ha habido un incremento de la igualdad en la participación para elegirlo, favoreciendo sistemas representativos o de elección directa. El artículo plantea también la hipótesis de si el grado de igualdad en las …
The Carrot and the Stick
Party regulation in new democracies in general, and in the Spanish political system in particular, has not been a matter of concern until very recently. The empirical part explores the impact such regulation has had on the Spanish party system as well as on the life of its party organisations
Fast and Furious
After a stunning breakthrough in the 2014 European election, Podemos became the third largest parliamentary party in Spain in the 2016 general election and achieved representation in all regions. This article examines how Podemos has adapted to the opportunities and dilemmas posed by Spain's multi-level setting in several ways: its formation in early 2014 and its evolution since; its ideological principles and policy menu; its organisation; and i…
Les méthodes de sélection des candidats et leur influence sur le profil des têtes de listes lors des élections régionales en Espagne1
Cet article examine quelques-unes des principales conséquences politiques des méthodes de sélection des candidats régionaux en Espagne. Pour ce faire, les hypothèses théoriques sur les modes de sélection des candidats au niveau national sont revisitées et une plus grande attention est portée à l’influence combinée du degré d’inclusivité et de décentralisation. L’article explore les règles de sélection des candidats ainsi que le profil de ces dern…
Spain steals from us!’ The ‘populist drift’ of Catalan regionalism
New parties’ linkages with external groups and civil society in Spain
The aim of this article is to assess the linkages between the Spanish new parties with groups and civil society. After outlining a short framework on the new linkages between parties and external groups in times of social and political unrest and discussing the case selection, it briefly introduces the classic patterns of interaction between Spain’s mainstream parties, the PP and the PSOE and the main interest groups since the late 1970s. Then, t…
Ho volem tot! La CUP y la articulación del independentismo de izquierda radical en Cataluña
This article analyses the political and organizational evolution of the Candidatura d’Unitat Popular (Popular Unity Candidature, CUP), a secessionist and radical left party from Catalonia that has been widely featured as a movement party (e. g., Kitschelt, 2006). The main aims of the article are to assess its main features, and to point out the factors that might contribute to understand why this party has been able to adapt itself without major …
Podemos’ and Ciudadanos’ multi-level institutionalization challenges
The PSOE’s deliberation and democratic innovations in turbulent times for the social democracy
In the midst of the great recession, the Spanish Socialists Worker’s Party (PSOE) lost the Government and experienced a process of instability while trying to reconnect with its electorate. The party’s strategic response was embracing highly inclusive deliberations on both key institutional and policy issues that eventually sparked tensions and division. These internal debates led to the introduction and implementation of other democratic innovat…
Digital Parties
International audience
El efecto austeridad. El activismo de partido en Europa durante la Gran Recesión
El artículo analiza la evolución de la afiliación y el activismo partidista en Europa en los últimos veinte años. Tenemos dos objetivos principales. En primer lugar, proporcionamos una nueva tipología de los diferentes modos de vinculación a los partidos políticos. De acuerdo con el modelo de afiliación multi-speed de Susan Scarrow, abogamos por una re-conceptualización del activismo de partido que lo separe de la afiliación formal. Basándonos en…
Adiós a los activistas todoterreno? Un análisis de conglomerados del activismo de partido en España
Este artículo tiene como objetivo identificar diferentes modos de participación entre los miembros más activos dentro de los partidos políticos y explorar las razones detrás de esta variación. Las investigaciones previas se han centrado en la posición jerárquica de los miembros según su vinculación a la organización, para explicar diferentes tipos de activismo. Sin embargo, se ha prestado menos atención a la variación horizontal entre los activis…
La reestructuració de la competició electoral a la Comunitat Valenciana (2011-2019)
La competició electoral a la Comunitat Valenciana generalment s’ha articulat amb base en els eixos esquerra-dreta i la identitat nacional (p. ex. Martín Cubas, 2007). Encara que la identitat dels electors ha romàs generalment estable, sí que s’han produït alguns canvis entre 2011 i 2019 que, possiblement, han facilitat l’emergència de partits polítics nous. El propòsit principal del text és mostrar en quina mesura s’han produït canvis en els espa…
Approaching the Unknown. The Covid-19 pandemic, political parties and digital adaptations
During COVID-19 politics was radically transformed. Even though parliaments, parties, and parliamentary groups continued working, they did so mainly through digital means. Our aim is to investigate how political parties and their élites reacted to those changes. For this aim, we launched a pilot survey among party élites in Spain and Italy. We use descriptive statistics and multivariate OLS regressions to answer to our research questions. Our res…
Party primaries and turnout
The impact of party primaries on turnout at the meso level has been particularly under-researched. Thus, the aim of this paper is to explore the determinants of turnout on party primaries by employing an original dataset comprising over 300 selection processes of candidates and leaders in Spain from 1991 to 2021 at both the national and regional level. One of our main findings suggests, in line with what has been affirmed by previous literature, …
The use of party websites for political information among Spanish party activists
Scholars have shown that activists use the Internet for political purposes more often than passive rank-and-file members. Previous research indicates activists engage in different types of activities and with various levels of intensity. However, it is unclear to what extent such modes of party activism are linked to different uses of digital resources. Our paper contributes to the existing research by explaining what drives party website usage a…
Las carreras políticas de los jefes de gobierno regionales en España, Francia y el Reino Unido (1980-2010)
El objetivo de este trabajo es conocer los efectos de la descentralizaciónpolítica en la élite política regional. Nos preguntamos si se estáproduciendo una bifurcación respecto a la élite nacional, de tal modoque se manifi este un predominio de carreras locales o regionales frentea carreras nacionales. Para ello, realizamos una descripción de las carreraspolíticas de los jefes de gobiernos regionales de España, Franciay Reino Unido y establecemos…
Mapping the digitalisation of European political parties
An increasing number of comparative case studies explore the drivers and impacts of digital technologies on political parties (Bennet et al., 2018. The democratic interface: Technology, political organization, and diverging patterns of electoral representation. Information Communication & Society, 21(11), 1655–1680; Gerbaudo, 2019. The digital party: Political organisation and online democracy. Pluto Press), but a large comparative account on how…
A pandemic affair? Digital party conferences in Spain
The COVID-19 pandemic forced parties to face a critical dilemma between freezing their internal processes indefinitely or adapting themselves to sometimes unexplored online formats. Amongst the most affected activities were party congresses. This paper contributes to the scholar debate on critical junctures and party reform, examining how changes on the environment can drive parties to transform their organisational practices and innovate on thei…
When do parties go digital? Examining the drivers of internal and external party digitalisation
Our paper investigates the drivers of party digitalisation, measuring the influence of environmental factors, inter-party competition and party characteristics on the utilisation of digital tools. The main innovation of this paper is to propose a measurement of digitalisation that classifies digital processes according to their functions and goals: an internal dimension oriented towards participation and members’ engagement, and an external dimen…
The flip side of digital technologies in internal party elections
Political Parties and the Use of Digitalization in Daily Politics
This special issue examines how digital tools influence the characteristics and functions of political parties by looking at three specific dimensions: intra‐party communication, attitudes towards digitalization, and the use of digital tools in different institutional arenas. It advances our understanding of party digitalization in three significant ways. First, the collection of articles aims to shift the focus of party digitalization to everyda…
Political science (24 works) · Politics (16 works) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (15 works) · Law (14 works) · Law (12 works) · Populism, Right-Wing Movements (11 works) · Humanities (10 works) · Social Media and Politics (10 works) · Political economy (8 works) · Political Systems and Governance (8 works)