The effects of deliberation in Czech Pirate Party: the case of coalition formation in Brno (2018)

Abstract

The Czech Pirate Party is one of the most electorally successful Pirate parties in the world. In this article, we analyse the effect of its intra-party deliberation preceding participation in an executive coalition in the second biggest Czech city, Brno, after the 2018 local election. The study relies on a combination of party open online dis-cussions and discourse from local party elites. We focus on the effects on the coa-lition formation process, especially the relations with coalition partners, the intra-party effects on the whole party, and the local party organization.