Affiliation:
1. Faculty of Arts, Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem (Czechia)
2. Faculty of Arts, University of West Bohemia (Czechia)
Abstract
At the 2017 parliamentary elections in Czechia, the Czech Pirate Party was unprecedentedly successful compared to most Pirate Party in Europe. However, while the Pirate-led alliance PirSTAN won 15.62% of the votes in the 2021 Parliamentary Election, the number of Pirate MPs dropped from 22 to 4. The goal of this paper is therefore to explain this decline. We show that the pirates’ failures were primarily due to the tactical and strategic failures of the pirates, who, although acting as a data-based party, were unable to assess the danger of an electoral alliance with STAN, whose local and regional reputation and tactics targeting preferences have managed to minimize the representation of pirates.
Publisher
Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Saints Cyril and Methodius
Subject
General Agricultural and Biological Sciences,General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology,Molecular Biology,Biomedical Engineering,Biochemistry,Biomaterials,General Medicine,Biotechnology,Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology,Bioengineering,Biotechnology,Applied Mathematics,General Agricultural and Biological Sciences,General Environmental Science,Philosophy,General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology,General Medicine,Sociology and Political Science,History,Anthropology,Cultural Studies,Plant Science,Plant Science,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics,Plant Science,Plant Science,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics,Plant Science,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
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