Sub-National Democracy and Politics Through Social Media

Part I. Drivers and Barriers

1. Measuring Social Media Diffusion in Local Governments from a Longitudinal Perspective: Adoption, Barriers, and Perceptions
J. Ignacio Criado, Vicente Pastor, Julián Villodre

2. The Post-Adoption Behaviors of Government Social Media in China
Liang Ma

3. Challenges of Digital Politics at the Subnational Level in Sweden: Descriptions and Explanations of Social Media Usage
Gustav Lidén

Part II. Social Media for Democracy

4. Attack, Interact, and Mobilize: Twitter Communication Strategies of Greek Mayors and their Effects on Users’ Engagement
Amalia Triantafillidou, Georgios Lappas, Alexandros Kleftodimos, Prodromos Yannas

5. The Effect of Post Type and Post Category on Citizen Interaction Level on Facebook: The Case of Metropolitan and Provincial Municipalities in the Marmara Region of Turkey
Mehmet Zahid Sobacı, İbrahim Hatipoğlu, Mehmet Fürkan Korkmaz

6. Citizens’ Engagement in Local Government in a New Political Scenario: Emergent vs. Traditional Parties
Alejandro Sáez-Martín, Juana Alonso-Cañadas, Federico Galán-Valdivieso, Carmen Caba-Pérez

7. Social Media Use from the Citizen Engagement Perspective: The Case of Twitter in New York and Chicago Participatory Budgeting
Won No, Chul Hyun Park

Part III. Social Media in Politics

8. Perceptions, Uses, Visual Aspects, and Consequences of Social Media Campaigning: Lessons from Municipal Facebook Campaigning, Israel 2013
Azi Lev-On

9. Small Is the New Big – At Least on Twitter: A Diachronic Study of Twitter Use during Two Regional Norwegian Elections
Anders Olof Larsson

10. From Offline Politics to Online Action: Social Media Adoption and Communication by the Legislators, Lobbyists, and Business Groups of Maine
James Cook, Carrie Hill, Jennifer Chase

11. Politics and Digital Media: An Exploratory Study of the 2014 Subnational Elections in Ecuador
Yanina Welp, Pedro Capra, Flavia Freidenberg

Nyckelord: Political Science and International Relations, Political Communication, Democracy, Social Media