Título del artículo
A Spanish ‘Yes, We Can!’ Against the two-Party System: the Development of Political Party Podemos
Autores/as
Guillermo López García
Resumen
This article develops an analysis of the internal functioning of the Spanish party Podemos and its structural make-up. The used methodology consists of: 1) a descriptive analysis of the development of Podemos, based on the available information in the media; 2) an analysis centered on the presence of Podemos in social networks and the mainstream media, in addition to electoral results and polls. The analysis attempts to determine the following: the party’s decision-making process, along with the type of relationships established between leaders and supporters; to what extent the Internet is used as a primary tool for organization, mobilization and political propaganda; and the extent of the clash or harmony within the interparty’s dynamics: on one hand, the bottom-up structure of the citizen assemblies and, on the other, the top-down structure inferred from Pablo Iglesias’s hyper-leadership and the media presence of the party’s principal leaders.
Palabras clave
Podemos, European Elections, New Media, Spanish Politics, Political Populism
Publicación
Annals of the Croatian Political Science Association
Volumen
13
Número
1
Año
2016
Páginas
83-99
REFERENCIA COMPLETA
López García, Guillermo (2016). A Spanish ‘Yes, We Can!’ Against the two-Party System: the Development of Political Party Podemos. Annals of the Croatian Political Science Association, 13 (1), 83-99.
