When do parties go digital? Examining the drivers of internal and external party digitalisation

Adrià Mompó, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Marco Meloni, University of Southampton, Oscar Barberà, Universitat de València, Fabio Lupato, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Giulia Sandri, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Felix von Nostitz, Université Catholique de Lille

Party Politics: The International Journal for the Study of Political Parties and Political Organizations

Published online on May 29, 2025

Abstract

Party Politics, Volume 32, Issue 4, Page 455-467, July 2026.
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 ...