Innovations, reinvented politics and representative democracy
Do political innovations matter? Representative democracy at a crossroads / Agnès Alexandre-Collier, Alexandra Goujon and Guillaume Gourgues -- A new political elite in France : the end of professionalization? / Dominique Andolfatto -- Does party democracy impact American politics? The rise of the amateur Republican during the 2016 US presidential cycle / François Vergniolle De Chantal -- Primary elections for party leadership in Italy : a democratic innovation? / Giulia Sandri, Antonella Seddone and Fabio Sozzi -- Experimenting with open non-partisan primaries : LaPrimaire.org (2016-2017) / Rémi Lefebvre -- An undying breed? The electoral mobilization of supporters' networks by the Conservative and Labour Parties in the UK / Agnès Alexandre-Collier and Emmanuelle Avril -- Political innovation and democratic participation within Podemos in Spain / Mathieu Petithomme -- A 'popular democracy' without people? Citizens' distant support for 'participatory governance' in a French town / Guillaume Gourgues and Clément Mabi -- Privatizing or renewing politics? Para-partisan groups in the United States / Alix Meyer -- Experimenting local civic activism in Ukraine : the case study of strong communities / Alexandra Goujon -- Tweeting back : innovative political contestation in viral posts on twitter during the 2017 French presidential elections / Alex Frame and Gilles Brachotte -- Can big data reinvigorate political participation? The case of the French presidential electoral campaign in 2017 / Anaïs Théviot -- The digital mobilization of the discord community supporting Jean-Luc Mélenchon's La France Insoumise and Beppe Grillo's Five Stars Movement / Paola Sedda -- Conclusion: Lessons to draw from the comparison / Anika Gauja.