[PDF] The Pirate Parties Across Europe eBook

Author : Benjamin Leruth
Publisher :
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 17,46 MB
Release : 2017-11-08
Category :
ISBN : 9781138218215

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The emergence and rise of the Pirate Parties across Europe remains an under-studied phenomenon, despite it being one of the rare new transnational movements that succeeded in establishing itself in several countries, with Pirate Parties registered in a total of 62 countries. This book offers a detailed analysis of the emergence and rise of Pirate politics across Europe, from 2005 to 2015. Based on a thorough content analysis of official Pirate Parties documents across Europe and interviews with key members of this movement, the book offers a balanced mix between theoretical and practical chapters. It shows how throughout the early 2010s, Pirate Parties have played key roles in transnational anti-austerity and anti-Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) movements. Most importantly, it demonstrates how Pirate Parties in Sweden, Germany and Iceland became influential on the national and European stages. This text will be of key interest to students and scholars of political parties and party politics, European politics, comparative politics and more broadly to the social sciences and law.

Author : Patrick Burkart
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 19,26 MB
Release : 2014-01-24
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0262026945

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An examination of the Pirate political movement in Europe analyzes its advocacy for free expression and the preservation of the Internet as a commons. The Swedish Pirate Party emerged as a political force in 2006 when a group of software programmers and file-sharing geeks protested the police takedown of The Pirate Bay, a Swedish file-sharing search engine. The Swedish Pirate Party, and later the German Pirate Party, came to be identified with a “free culture” message that came into conflict with the European Union's legal system. In this book, Patrick Burkart examines the emergence of Pirate politics as an umbrella cyberlibertarian movement that views file sharing as a form of free expression and advocates for the preservation of the Internet as a commons. He links the Pirate movement to the Green movement, arguing that they share a moral consciousness and an explicit ecological agenda based on the notion of a commons, or public domain. The Pirate parties, like the Green Party, must weigh ideological purity against pragmatism as they move into practical national and regional politics. Burkart uses second-generation critical theory and new social movement theory as theoretical perspectives for his analysis of the democratic potential of Pirate politics. After setting the Pirate parties in conceptual and political contexts, Burkart examines European antipiracy initiatives, the influence of the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, and the pressure exerted on European governance by American software and digital exporters. He argues that pirate politics can be seen as “cultural environmentalism,” a defense of Internet culture against both corporate and state colonization.

Author : James Arvanitakis
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 19,61 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Computer crimes
ISBN : 9781936117598

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"A collection of texts that takes a broad perspective on digital piracy and attempts to capture the multidimensional impacts of digital piracy on capitalist society today"--

Author : Oscar Barberà
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 13,64 MB
Release : 2021-10-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 3030786684

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This book analyzes how mainstream and new parties are building their digital platforms and transitioning from traditional (offline) organizations into the digital world. The authors present an innovative empirical exploration of the democratic consequences and technical challenges of the digitalization of party organizations from a comparative perspective. They provide an original account of how party digital platforms are regulated and used, and a crucial discussion of the main technological and democratic issues that political parties face in their digital transition. Further, the authors assess the consequences of these digitalization processes for political participation and party membership, as well as the impact on party organizational models and electoral campaign potential. The book looks into one of the less-studied aspects of digital democracy, also presenting empirical evidence and case studies. It presents different parties and their adoption of digital participation platforms, from the Pirate Parties in Northern Europe to Podemos in Spain, La France Insoumise in France, the Five Stars Movement in Italy, or the German Greens. Therefore, the book is a must-read for scholars of political science, policy-makers, and practitioners, interested in a better understanding of the transition of political parties into the digital world.

Author : Wolfram Nordsieck
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 698 pages
File Size : 31,8 MB
Release : 2024-01-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 3758326265

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PARTIES AND ELECTIONS IN EUROPE is a comprehensive reference guide to the parliamentary elections and governments in the European countries since 1945, the elections to the European Parliament since 1979 and to all significant political parties in Europe. Listed are more than 1250 parties (currently active parties and dissolved or inactive parties). The guide includes basic data of these parties (founding years, political orientations, affiliations to political parties at European level, political groups in the European Parliament and political internationals) and a chronological summary of their history (name changes, predecessors, mergers and splits).

Author : Paolo Gerbaudo
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 36,66 MB
Release : 2018-07-20
Category : Communication in politics
ISBN : 9780745335803

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From the Pirate Parties in Northern Europe to Podemos in Spain and the 5-Star Movement in Italy, from the movements behind Bernie Sanders in the United States and Jeremy Corbyn in the United Kingdom, to Jean-Luc Melenchon's presidential bid in France, the last decade has witnessed the rise of a new blueprint for political organization: the digital party. These new political formations tap into the potential of social media to gain consensus, and use online participatory platforms to include the rank-and-file. Paolo Gerbaudo looks at the restructuring of political parties and campaigns in the time of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and big data. Drawing on interviews with key political leaders and digital organizers, he argues that the digital party is very different from the class-based "mass party" of the industrial era, and offers promising new solutions to social polarization and the failures of liberal democracy today.

Author : Dr Gabriele D'Ottavio
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 23,22 MB
Release : 2015-06-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1472444396

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Germany After the 2013 Elections provides a comprehensive analysis of the German elections of 2013, and their wider consequences for both German and European politics. International specialists on German and EU politics provide expert analysis on the election result and its consequences. Germany’s European policy and the potential consequences of the election for European and international politics are also explored along with Germany’s long term approach to European integration, its role in the management of the Euro crisis and its changing relations with its main partners in the EU. The final part of the volume is devoted to some of the key challenges faced and changing modes of governance in times of crisis.

Author : Richard Youngs
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 31,41 MB
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0755639731

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In recent years serious concerns emerged over the state of European democracy. Many democracy indices are reporting a year-on-year drift towards less liberal politics in the countries of the European Union. Polls regularly suggest that the voters are coming to question democratic norms more seriously than for many decades. Here, Richard Youngs assesses these risks as many analysts, journalists and politicians stressed the danger of Europe descending into an era of conflict, driven by xenophobic nationalism and nativist authoritarians slowly dismantling liberal democratic rights. In 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic has intensified these fears. There is another side of the democratic equation, however. Youngs argues that governments, EU institutions, political parties, citizens and civil society organisations have gradually begun to push back in defence of democracy. With each chapter, Youngs shows how many governmental, political and social actors have developed responses to Europe's democratic malaise at multiple levels. Europe's democracy problems have been grave and far-reaching. Yet, a spirit of democratic resistance has slowly taken shape. This book argues that the pro-democratic fightback may be belated, but it is real and has assumed significant traction with various types of democratic reform underway, including citizen initiatives, political-party changes, digital activism and EU-level responses.

Author : Fernando Casal Bértoa
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 42,14 MB
Release : 2022-11-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1351798057

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This book represents the first comprehensive study of the evolution of parties and party systems in all nine democratic European states with less than one million inhabitants. As small political units have for long been considered to be most conducive to stable democracy, this volume analyses the actual role of political parties and partisan competition in the operation of modern democracy in those European microstates. Drawing on the crucial contribution of leading country experts in the field, it provides rich, systematic contextualized knowledge on these lesser-known cases. It further contributes to the mainstreaming of small state research in social science studies by comparing the experience of party politics in European microstates with that of larger countries in the same region of the world. This volume will be of key interest to scholars and students of party systems and political parties, elections and democracy, small states, European politics and more broadly of comparative politics.

Author : Patrick Burkart
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 36,91 MB
Release : 2014-01-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0262320150

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An examination of the Pirate political movement in Europe analyzes its advocacy for free expression and the preservation of the Internet as a commons. The Swedish Pirate Party emerged as a political force in 2006 when a group of software programmers and file-sharing geeks protested the police takedown of The Pirate Bay, a Swedish file-sharing search engine. The Swedish Pirate Party, and later the German Pirate Party, came to be identified with a “free culture” message that came into conflict with the European Union's legal system. In this book, Patrick Burkart examines the emergence of Pirate politics as an umbrella cyberlibertarian movement that views file sharing as a form of free expression and advocates for the preservation of the Internet as a commons. He links the Pirate movement to the Green movement, arguing that they share a moral consciousness and an explicit ecological agenda based on the notion of a commons, or public domain. The Pirate parties, like the Green Party, must weigh ideological purity against pragmatism as they move into practical national and regional politics. Burkart uses second-generation critical theory and new social movement theory as theoretical perspectives for his analysis of the democratic potential of Pirate politics. After setting the Pirate parties in conceptual and political contexts, Burkart examines European antipiracy initiatives, the influence of the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, and the pressure exerted on European governance by American software and digital exporters. He argues that pirate politics can be seen as “cultural environmentalism,” a defense of Internet culture against both corporate and state colonization.