In this episode, we will focus on digitally enabled challenges to political parties.

We see parties being challenged all over Western democracies. The analytical tools discussed above help us in charting and analyzing these challenges. These tools are: 

 

- crisis and conflict in intermediary institutions, and 

- emergence of new parties or factions within parties adapted to the new opportunities provided by lowered information and coordination costs. 

 

In this episode, we will apply these tools to better understand the challenge to parties.

Chapters:

00:00 - Introduction
00:18 - Crisis, conflict, and the digital challenge to parties
00:49 - Signs of crisis and conflict of parties as institutions
07:49 - Challenge through information
14:02 - Challenge through coordination
19:47 - Conclusion

Script:

http://digitalmedia.andreasjungherr.de/challenge.html#crisis-conflict-and-the-digital-challenge-to-parties