In June 2016, the anti‐establishment and grassroots‐democratic Five Star Movement (MoVimento Cinque Stelle, M5S) won local elections in Rome. Following fundamental opposition, supporters of the Movement now had to demonstrate their ability to govern and deliver on far‐reaching promises. This paper explores what happened when the utopian aspirations of the M5S – such as entangling the represented and their representatives in a permanent political dialogue, reshaping civic culture and harnessing new communication technologies for innovative types of participation – encountered political reality. I show that the divergent rhythms and tempos of political practice and bureaucratic reality soon split the more radical M5S supporters from the newly elected officials. Rather than realising utopian democratic behaviour, new technological possibilities and innovation in participation began to fracture the M5S.

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罗马的五星级运动（M5S）：乌托邦政治的真实生活

2016年6月，反建制和基层民主的五星级运动（MoVimento Cinque Stelle，M5S）在罗马赢得了地方选举。经过根本性的反对，不结盟运动的支持者现在必须展示其执政和兑现深远承诺的能力。本文探讨了当M5S的乌托邦理想（例如，使代表及其代表陷入永久性的政治对话，重塑公民文化并利用新的通信技术进行创新的参与类型）遇到的政治现实时所发生的情况。我表明，不同的节奏和政治实践和官僚现实的节奏很快，新当选的官员分裂更为激进的M5S支持者。与其实现乌托邦的民主行为，