Title:	The Pirates of Czechia: the Curse of Preferential Vote
Authors:	Maškarinec, Pavel Naxera, Vladimír
Citation:	MAŠKARINEC, P. NAXERA, V. The Pirates of Czechia: the Curse of Preferential Vote. Slovak Journal of Political Sciences, 2022, roč. 22, č. 1, s. 5-24. ISSN: 1335-9096
Issue Date:	2022
Publisher:	University of Saints Cyril and Methodius in Trnava - Faculty of Social Sciences
Document type:	článek article
URI:	2-s2.0-85135484928 http://hdl.handle.net/11025/49815
ISSN:	1335-9096
Keywords in different language:	Czech Republic;Czech Pirate Party;elections;preferential voting
Abstract in different language:	In the 2017 Czech parliamentary election, the Czech Pirate Party succeed unprecedentedly, compared to most of the Pirate parties across 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. So, the aim of this paper is to explain this slump. We show that fall of the Pirates was caused mainly by the tactical and strategic failure 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, together with tactics aimed at polling preference votes, managed to minimise the representation of Pirates.
Rights:	© University of Saints Cyril and Methodius in Trnava - Faculty of Social Sciences
Appears in Collections:	Články / Articles (KAP) OBD

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