Giulia Sandri
Biographic Data
| ID | 951587 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Giulia Sandri |
| GIVEN NAMES | Giulia |
| FAMILY NAME | Sandri |
| SIGNATURE | SANDRI G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Université Libre de Bruxelles |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0559-5077 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 90 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
AI and the party: The three faces of party organization and artificial intelligence
This Research Note explores the emerging intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and party politics by applying Katz and Mair’s “three faces” framework to analyze the role of AI in reshaping party organization. While AI is not yet uniformly transforming parties, its growing use in campaigning, policymaking, membership engagement, and internal management introduces new dynamics of centralisation, personalisation, and automation. The note high…
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…
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…
First survive, then thrive: Major Urban Centres and Resistance Against Autocratisation
This article highlights the critical yet overlooked role of subnational entities, particularly cities, in autocratisation processes. While research often emphasizes national factors, cities can act as democratic enclaves resisting autocratisation or, alternatively, facilitate authoritarian trends. The article addresses three key questions: (1) What explains democratic enclaves in cities during autocratisation? (2) How do these enclaves resist nat…
Patterns and Factors of Political Disconnection on Social Media: A Cross-Platform Comparison
There is a growing body of literature on the use and selection of social media platforms for political activism. However, less attention has been given to identifying citizens who are politically disconnected—those registered on social media platforms but not engaging in political activities. Additionally, whether patterns of non-use of social media for politics vary across different platforms remains understudied. Based on an online survey of 1,…
Variables lourdes » et effets de voisinage: Retours sur une enquête à la sortie des urnes à Roubaix
Cet article mobilise une méthode particulière d’analyse des choix électoraux : une enquête à la sortie des urnes à vocation représentative menée lors de l’élection présidentielle de 2022 dans la ville de Roubaix, un territoire à la fois populaire et inégalitaire. Notre enquête a porté sur 35 des 45 bureaux de vote de la ville (4 266 questionnaires). Nous expliquons dans un premier temps qu’il est possible de contenir les biais associés aux enquêt…
Les réseaux socionumériques dans la campagne présidentielle de 2022 en France: Diversité des usages, diversité des usager·e·s
Si l'utilisation des médias sociaux en période électorale a déjà fait l'objet de nombreuses études, il apparaît pertinent de prolonger ces recherches en raison notamment de l'émergence de nouvelles plateformes. À ce titre, nous proposons d'analyser, à partir d'une enquête post-électorale spécifique, les profils des citoyens qui utilisent les différents médias sociaux pour s'informer ou être actifs politiquement à l'occasion de la campagne préside…
From open government to open parties in Europe. A framework for analysis
Open government (OG) is an increasingly used management model among the public administrations of European countries and of the European Union, which is currently working on The Path to the Digital Decade . This supposes the application of measures to promote proximity and citizenship's prominence in many public policies, leading to improved quality of democracy. Furthermore, the COVID-19 pandemic has contributed to a forced digitalization of man…
Peripheral Elites in West European Central States’ Apparatus: An Introduction
The presence and influence of peripheral elites in national political institutions is frequently handled by the press. But, oddly enough, the lack of a comprehensive vision of this issue tends to feed flashy titles alerting about the influence of some territorial groups in central institutions such as the “Scottish Raj,” the “Tartan mafia,” or the “Cosa Scotia” in London. This article aims to provide a general theoretical framework able to orient…
L’organisation en ligne des partis politiques européens: Entre avancées des consultations numériques et réticences concernant la digitalisation de la sélection des organes internes
L’utilisation croissante des technologies numériques par les partis politiques est devenue un objet de recherche très important (Gerbaudo, 2019a ; Oross et Tap, 2021 ; Barberà et al ., 2021). Néanmoins, la manière dont les technologies numériques façonnent l’organisation des partis reste une zone grise pour la recherche. Afin de tenter de répondre à ce manque, cet article propose de développer un cadre commun pour cartographier la digitalisation …
The political leadership of Mario Draghi: An historical watershed or an inevitable bump in the road
2021 has been a year marking a turning point in the struggle against the pandemic and a time of economic and social transition in European Member States (MS). Italy has fared quite well in comparison to other MS, both with regard to the efficacy of its vaccination campaign and with regard to the drafting of its National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP). Most of these successes can certainly be explained by the change of government, and by a re…
Political information consumption and electoral turnout during Covid: The case of the 2020 municipal elections
À la recherche des citoyens mobilisés en ligne lors des élections municipales de 2020
Cet article étudie les effets du contexte de crise liée à la Covid-19 sur la mobilisation en ligne des électeurs lors des municipales de 2020 en France. En mobilisant les données de l'enquête PELMEL (Participation électorale dans la métropole lilloise), conduite à l'issue du second tour du scrutin municipal, nous montrons que la participation numérique est restée minoritaire durant la campagne et cela malgré le contexte sanitaire. Cette participa…
Digital Parties: The Challenges of Online Organisation and Participation
International audience
New Paths for Selecting Political Elites: Investigating the Impact of Inclusive Candidate and Party Leader Selection Methods
International audience
Juntos pero no revueltos. Miembros, simpatizantes, y el Partido Democrático en Italia
En este artículo investigamos el caso del Partido Demócrata en Italia (Partito Democratico - PD). Observamos cómo los miembros y simpatizantes se integran dentro del partido y su papel respectivo en la selección del líder. El PD aplica un procedimiento de dos pasos para seleccionar a los líderes. Primero, los afiliados seleccionan a los candidatos que se postulan para el liderazgo del partido, de modo que solo tres candidatos tienen derecho a pas…
New Paths for Selecting Political Elites
Party guests or party crashers? Non-members’ political engagement across party organizations
Over the past decade, many parties have created new possibilities for affiliating and involving citizens, often rivalling the classic conception of party membership. So far, the existing literature has mainly focused on classifying these new and different types of affiliates. However, little attention has been paid to what these “non-full-membership” options imply in terms of formal rights and obligations. We explore here the opportunities that p…
Party organization and intra-party democracy in Italy
In this article, we discuss the features and consequences of intra-party democracy (IPD) in Italian parties in the last two decades. We start by mapping the democratic innovations in Italy, both in terms of rules and practices. We focus on the use and consequences of open and closed primaries for selecting both party leaders and candidates for legislative and executive offices. Finally, we explore the consequences of the use of primaries and othe…
Primary elections and party grassroots: Participation, innovation and resistance
Drawing upon both the “party democratization” and “decline in party membership” literature, this paper explores how party members perceive the introduction of primary elections as procedures for selecting candidates and/or party leaders. Using Italy as an illustration, the analysis of survey data on party members from three major parties (Partito Democratico, Lega Nord, Movimento 5 Stelle) reveals three main findings. First, members approve and p…
Challenges of Democracy in the 21st Century: Concepts, Methods, Causality and the Quality of Democracy
The effectiveness and capacity of survival of democratic regimes has been recently and widely questioned in the public and political debate. Both democratic institutions and political actors are increasingly confronted with rapid economic and societal transformations that, at least according to some observers and commentators, they not seem to be ready or equipped to manage effectively. This book evaluates and challenges recent scholarly literatu…
The Democratic Party between change and settlement. Chronicle of a particular year
The year 2017 represents a key moment in the political life of the PD. The party celebrated 10 years of existence and did so by electing a new leader via open primaries, following the same symbolic process of its founding moment in 2007. However, the party has radically changed in the last decade and in the last year in particular. Not only has a dynamic of personalization started (and continued) to characterize the functioning of the party’s cen…
Démocratiser la sélection des candidats dans les partis politiques: Un effet de trompe-l’oeil
Démocratiser la sélection des candidats dans les partis politiques : un effet de trompe-l’oeil ?. An article from journal Politique et Sociétés (Démocratiser la sélection des candidats dans les partis politiques : un effet de trompe-l’oeil ?), on Érudit
Challenges of political participation and intra-party democracy: Bittersweet symphony from party membership and primary elections in Italy
Primaries at the municipal level: How, how many and why
In this article, we analyse the mayoral open primaries held from 2004 to 2015. We empirically assess their functioning and their effectiveness, especially in terms of competitiveness and turnout. We also explore the dynamics of diffusion of this instrument of intra-party democracy over time, across parties and across geographical areas. Moreover, we provide an exploratory account of the electoral consequences of mayoral primaries in terms of thre…
Challenges of political participation and intra-party democracy: Bittersweet symphony from party membership and primary elections in Italy
Party members in a pillarised partitocracy. An empirical overview of party membership figures and profiles in Belgium
The political leadership of Mario Draghi: An historical watershed or an inevitable bump in the road
2021 has been a year marking a turning point in the struggle against the pandemic and a time of economic and social transition in European Member States (MS). Italy has fared quite well in comparison to other MS, both with regard to the efficacy of its vaccination campaign and with regard to the drafting of its National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP). Most of these successes can certainly be explained by the change of government, and by a re…
Party Membership Role and Party Cartelization in Belgium and Italy: Two Faces of the Same Medal
The cartel party model has triggered a burgeoning literature on its theoretical implications, and has been largely tested empirically. Nevertheless, the dimension of the model that concern the relationship between members and elites has been rather neglected, even though the membership role variables are the sole features of the cartel party that transcend the simple intensification of the previous catch‐all model and that carry the most extensiv…
Primary elections and party grassroots: Participation, innovation and resistance
Drawing upon both the “party democratization” and “decline in party membership” literature, this paper explores how party members perceive the introduction of primary elections as procedures for selecting candidates and/or party leaders. Using Italy as an illustration, the analysis of survey data on party members from three major parties (Partito Democratico, Lega Nord, Movimento 5 Stelle) reveals three main findings. First, members approve and p…
Primaries at the municipal level: How, how many and why
In this article, we analyse the mayoral open primaries held from 2004 to 2015. We empirically assess their functioning and their effectiveness, especially in terms of competitiveness and turnout. We also explore the dynamics of diffusion of this instrument of intra-party democracy over time, across parties and across geographical areas. Moreover, we provide an exploratory account of the electoral consequences of mayoral primaries in terms of thre…
Francophone Exceptionalism within Alpine Ethno-regionalism? The Cases of the Union Valdôtaine and the Ligue Savoisienne
In their book Challenges to Consensual Politics: Democracy, Identity, and Populist Protest in the Alpine Region, Daniele Caramani and Yves Mény argue that the Alpine region displays a political culture characterized, among other things, by marked conservatism, nativism and Euroscepticism. Such transnational political culture manifests itself throughout the Alpine arch by the presence of successful ethno-regionalist, right-wing populist and Eurosc…
Party organization and intra-party democracy in Italy
In this article, we discuss the features and consequences of intra-party democracy (IPD) in Italian parties in the last two decades. We start by mapping the democratic innovations in Italy, both in terms of rules and practices. We focus on the use and consequences of open and closed primaries for selecting both party leaders and candidates for legislative and executive offices. Finally, we explore the consequences of the use of primaries and othe…
Sense or sensibility? Political attitudes and voting behaviour of party members, voters, and supporters of the Italian centre-left
We consider the effect of primary elections on party membership and electoral behaviour. Direct democracy instruments trigger significant changes in the role and behaviour of grassroots members. The case of the Italian centre-left parties, and particularly the Democratic Party, is in this sense relevant, as for over a decade these parties have been reaching out to supporters in order to include them into decision-making processes, such as the sel…
Belgian affairs and constituent preferences for ‘good constituency members’
I programmi elettorali dei partiti regionalisti europei: Un'analisi Comparata
Partiti e programmi elettorali I temi dei programmi elettorali dei partiti etno-regionalisti La dimensione dell'autogoverno regionale La seconda dimensione: destra-sinistra L'europeismo dei partiti etno-regionalisti Un prudente riepilogo
First survive, then thrive: Major Urban Centres and Resistance Against Autocratisation
This article highlights the critical yet overlooked role of subnational entities, particularly cities, in autocratisation processes. While research often emphasizes national factors, cities can act as democratic enclaves resisting autocratisation or, alternatively, facilitate authoritarian trends. The article addresses three key questions: (1) What explains democratic enclaves in cities during autocratisation? (2) How do these enclaves resist nat…
Les réseaux socionumériques dans la campagne présidentielle de 2022 en France: Diversité des usages, diversité des usager·e·s
Si l'utilisation des médias sociaux en période électorale a déjà fait l'objet de nombreuses études, il apparaît pertinent de prolonger ces recherches en raison notamment de l'émergence de nouvelles plateformes. À ce titre, nous proposons d'analyser, à partir d'une enquête post-électorale spécifique, les profils des citoyens qui utilisent les différents médias sociaux pour s'informer ou être actifs politiquement à l'occasion de la campagne préside…
Political information consumption and electoral turnout during Covid: The case of the 2020 municipal elections
À la recherche des citoyens mobilisés en ligne lors des élections municipales de 2020
Cet article étudie les effets du contexte de crise liée à la Covid-19 sur la mobilisation en ligne des électeurs lors des municipales de 2020 en France. En mobilisant les données de l'enquête PELMEL (Participation électorale dans la métropole lilloise), conduite à l'issue du second tour du scrutin municipal, nous montrons que la participation numérique est restée minoritaire durant la campagne et cela malgré le contexte sanitaire. Cette participa…
Juntos pero no revueltos. Miembros, simpatizantes, y el Partido Democrático en Italia
En este artículo investigamos el caso del Partido Demócrata en Italia (Partito Democratico - PD). Observamos cómo los miembros y simpatizantes se integran dentro del partido y su papel respectivo en la selección del líder. El PD aplica un procedimiento de dos pasos para seleccionar a los líderes. Primero, los afiliados seleccionan a los candidatos que se postulan para el liderazgo del partido, de modo que solo tres candidatos tienen derecho a pas…
Party guests or party crashers? Non-members’ political engagement across party organizations
Over the past decade, many parties have created new possibilities for affiliating and involving citizens, often rivalling the classic conception of party membership. So far, the existing literature has mainly focused on classifying these new and different types of affiliates. However, little attention has been paid to what these “non-full-membership” options imply in terms of formal rights and obligations. We explore here the opportunities that p…
Ethno-linguistic Identity and Party Politics in the Aosta Valley
The French-speaking minority within the Italian part of the Alpine region has been politically mobilized since the beginning of the twentieth century. The party politics of the Aosta Valley region have been traditionally shaped on the ethno-linguistic, rural-urban and centre-periphery cleavages. The main minority nationalist party claiming to represent the French-speaking community of the region is the Union Valdôtaine (UV). This paper aims to ex…
The Democratic Party between change and settlement. Chronicle of a particular year
The year 2017 represents a key moment in the political life of the PD. The party celebrated 10 years of existence and did so by electing a new leader via open primaries, following the same symbolic process of its founding moment in 2007. However, the party has radically changed in the last decade and in the last year in particular. Not only has a dynamic of personalization started (and continued) to characterize the functioning of the party’s cen…
Political system, civil society and institutions in Italy: The quality of democracy
I programmi elettorali dei partiti regionalisti europei: Un'analisi Comparata
Partiti e programmi elettorali I temi dei programmi elettorali dei partiti etno-regionalisti La dimensione dell'autogoverno regionale La seconda dimensione: destra-sinistra L'europeismo dei partiti etno-regionalisti Un prudente riepilogo
Party Membership Role and Party Cartelization in Belgium and Italy: Two Faces of the Same Medal
The cartel party model has triggered a burgeoning literature on its theoretical implications, and has been largely tested empirically. Nevertheless, the dimension of the model that concern the relationship between members and elites has been rather neglected, even though the membership role variables are the sole features of the cartel party that transcend the simple intensification of the previous catch‐all model and that carry the most extensiv…
La représentation politique des minorités linguistiques: Une analyse comparée de trois partis ethnorégionalistes d’Italie
Le Südtiroler Volkspartei en Haut Adige, l’Union Valdôtaine en Vallée d’Aoste et le Partito Sardo d’Azione en Sardaigne sont les principaux exemples de partis ethnorégionalistes historiques en Italie. Ces acteurs ont joué un rôle politique principalement au niveau régional, bien qu’ils aient tous obtenu à maintes reprises une représentation au sein du parlement national. Dans le cadre de cette représentation politique à multiples niveaux, cette é…
Ethno-linguistic Identity and Party Politics in the Aosta Valley
The French-speaking minority within the Italian part of the Alpine region has been politically mobilized since the beginning of the twentieth century. The party politics of the Aosta Valley region have been traditionally shaped on the ethno-linguistic, rural-urban and centre-periphery cleavages. The main minority nationalist party claiming to represent the French-speaking community of the region is the Union Valdôtaine (UV). This paper aims to ex…
Francophone Exceptionalism within Alpine Ethno-regionalism? The Cases of the Union Valdôtaine and the Ligue Savoisienne
In their book Challenges to Consensual Politics: Democracy, Identity, and Populist Protest in the Alpine Region, Daniele Caramani and Yves Mény argue that the Alpine region displays a political culture characterized, among other things, by marked conservatism, nativism and Euroscepticism. Such transnational political culture manifests itself throughout the Alpine arch by the presence of successful ethno-regionalist, right-wing populist and Eurosc…
Political system, civil society and institutions in Italy: The quality of democracy
Party members in a pillarised partitocracy. An empirical overview of party membership figures and profiles in Belgium
Belgian affairs and constituent preferences for ‘good constituency members’
Religion at the European Parliament: The Italian case
Italy is a predominantly Catholic country that developed historically on the basis of a strong, dominant religion and weak state institutions. Yet, openly clerical parties, direct advocates of the interests of the Catholic Church, have nowadays virtually disappeared and the relevance of the religious cleavage is decreasing, in favour of a more indirect support for these interests, mainly among moderate and conservative forces. Although the overal…
Sense or sensibility? Political attitudes and voting behaviour of party members, voters, and supporters of the Italian centre-left
We consider the effect of primary elections on party membership and electoral behaviour. Direct democracy instruments trigger significant changes in the role and behaviour of grassroots members. The case of the Italian centre-left parties, and particularly the Democratic Party, is in this sense relevant, as for over a decade these parties have been reaching out to supporters in order to include them into decision-making processes, such as the sel…
Primaries at the municipal level: How, how many and why
In this article, we analyse the mayoral open primaries held from 2004 to 2015. We empirically assess their functioning and their effectiveness, especially in terms of competitiveness and turnout. We also explore the dynamics of diffusion of this instrument of intra-party democracy over time, across parties and across geographical areas. Moreover, we provide an exploratory account of the electoral consequences of mayoral primaries in terms of thre…
Démocratiser la sélection des candidats dans les partis politiques: Un effet de trompe-l’oeil
Démocratiser la sélection des candidats dans les partis politiques : un effet de trompe-l’oeil ?. An article from journal Politique et Sociétés (Démocratiser la sélection des candidats dans les partis politiques : un effet de trompe-l’oeil ?), on Érudit
Challenges of political participation and intra-party democracy: Bittersweet symphony from party membership and primary elections in Italy
Challenges of Democracy in the 21st Century: Concepts, Methods, Causality and the Quality of Democracy
The effectiveness and capacity of survival of democratic regimes has been recently and widely questioned in the public and political debate. Both democratic institutions and political actors are increasingly confronted with rapid economic and societal transformations that, at least according to some observers and commentators, they not seem to be ready or equipped to manage effectively. This book evaluates and challenges recent scholarly literatu…
The Democratic Party between change and settlement. Chronicle of a particular year
The year 2017 represents a key moment in the political life of the PD. The party celebrated 10 years of existence and did so by electing a new leader via open primaries, following the same symbolic process of its founding moment in 2007. However, the party has radically changed in the last decade and in the last year in particular. Not only has a dynamic of personalization started (and continued) to characterize the functioning of the party’s cen…
Party organization and intra-party democracy in Italy
In this article, we discuss the features and consequences of intra-party democracy (IPD) in Italian parties in the last two decades. We start by mapping the democratic innovations in Italy, both in terms of rules and practices. We focus on the use and consequences of open and closed primaries for selecting both party leaders and candidates for legislative and executive offices. Finally, we explore the consequences of the use of primaries and othe…
Primary elections and party grassroots: Participation, innovation and resistance
Drawing upon both the “party democratization” and “decline in party membership” literature, this paper explores how party members perceive the introduction of primary elections as procedures for selecting candidates and/or party leaders. Using Italy as an illustration, the analysis of survey data on party members from three major parties (Partito Democratico, Lega Nord, Movimento 5 Stelle) reveals three main findings. First, members approve and p…
Digital Parties: The Challenges of Online Organisation and Participation
International audience
New Paths for Selecting Political Elites: Investigating the Impact of Inclusive Candidate and Party Leader Selection Methods
International audience
Juntos pero no revueltos. Miembros, simpatizantes, y el Partido Democrático en Italia
En este artículo investigamos el caso del Partido Demócrata en Italia (Partito Democratico - PD). Observamos cómo los miembros y simpatizantes se integran dentro del partido y su papel respectivo en la selección del líder. El PD aplica un procedimiento de dos pasos para seleccionar a los líderes. Primero, los afiliados seleccionan a los candidatos que se postulan para el liderazgo del partido, de modo que solo tres candidatos tienen derecho a pas…
New Paths for Selecting Political Elites
Party guests or party crashers? Non-members’ political engagement across party organizations
Over the past decade, many parties have created new possibilities for affiliating and involving citizens, often rivalling the classic conception of party membership. So far, the existing literature has mainly focused on classifying these new and different types of affiliates. However, little attention has been paid to what these “non-full-membership” options imply in terms of formal rights and obligations. We explore here the opportunities that p…
The political leadership of Mario Draghi: An historical watershed or an inevitable bump in the road
2021 has been a year marking a turning point in the struggle against the pandemic and a time of economic and social transition in European Member States (MS). Italy has fared quite well in comparison to other MS, both with regard to the efficacy of its vaccination campaign and with regard to the drafting of its National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP). Most of these successes can certainly be explained by the change of government, and by a re…
Political information consumption and electoral turnout during Covid: The case of the 2020 municipal elections
À la recherche des citoyens mobilisés en ligne lors des élections municipales de 2020
Cet article étudie les effets du contexte de crise liée à la Covid-19 sur la mobilisation en ligne des électeurs lors des municipales de 2020 en France. En mobilisant les données de l'enquête PELMEL (Participation électorale dans la métropole lilloise), conduite à l'issue du second tour du scrutin municipal, nous montrons que la participation numérique est restée minoritaire durant la campagne et cela malgré le contexte sanitaire. Cette participa…
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