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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 discussions and discourse from local party elites. We focus on the effects on the coalition formation process, especially the relations with coalition partners, the intra-party effects on the whole party, and the local party organization.
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The article was supported by the project “Postdoctoral job positions at UHK” and the project “Aktuální problémy politologického výzkumu V. (MUNI/A/1117/2018)”.
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Vodová, P., Voda, P. The effects of deliberation in Czech Pirate Party: the case of coalition formation in Brno (2018). Eur Polit Sci 19, 181–189 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41304-019-00233-1
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