The Pirate Parties across Europe

The Emergence of a New Political Movement
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-138-21821-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Routledge Studies on Political Parties and Party Systems

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Leruth, Benjamin (University of Groningen, Netherlands.)

Leruth, Benjamin

Jensen, Michael (University of Canberra, Australia)

Jensen, Michael

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
PartI: The Pirate Movement in Theory
1. History and Development of the Pirate movement across Europe
2. The Pirate Parties as a transnational movement
3.The Pirate Parties in the European political landscape: New Models of Governance
PartII: Case studies: The Rise and Fall of Pirate Parties across Europe
4. Sweden
5. Germany
6. Iceland
Conclusion and looking forward

Über Autor(innen)

Benjamin Leruth is Assistant Professor at the Institute for Governance and Policy Analysis at the University of Canberra, Australia.He holds a PhD in Politics from the University of Edinburgh and a LL.M. in European Law from the University of Kent. He co-edited a special issue of the Journal of European Public Policy on differentiated integration in the European Union, and co-authored two books on transnational and pan-European Euroscepticism (Routledge) as well as on the European welfare state after the Great Recession (2017).
Michael J. Jensen is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Governance and Policy Analysis at the University of Canberra, Australia.