Crossing the left-right party divide? Understanding the electoral success of the Czech Pirate Party in the 2017 parliamentary elections
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F44555601%3A13410%2F20%3A43895508" target="_blank" >RIV/44555601:13410/20:43895508 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0263395720920768" target="_blank" >https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0263395720920768</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0263395720920768" target="_blank" >10.1177/0263395720920768</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Crossing the left-right party divide? Understanding the electoral success of the Czech Pirate Party in the 2017 parliamentary elections
Original language description
In the 2017 Czech parliamentary election, the Czech Pirate Party (Pirates) gained 10.79% of the votes - an unprecedented success, compared to most of the pirate parties across Europe. However, as their electoral gain varies widely across the Czech Republic's territory, this article analyses all (more than 6000) Czech municipalities in the elections of 2010, 2013, and 2017 to explain this variation. Overall, the success of the Pirates was driven especially by obtaining much more support in larger municipalities with younger populations (although not only those aged 18-24 but also older ones), lower unemployment, higher turnout, and lower support for leftist parties. Thus, from a spatial perspective, the patterns of Pirate voting largely resembled long-term spatial support for Czech rightist parties and we can conclude that the Pirates made considerable inroads to regions which had historically been strongholds of the Civic Democratic Party, as the former main party of the right, but also strongholds of minor right-wing ('liberal centre') parties of the 1990s and early 2000s. Success of the Pirates thus was based especially on votes from municipalities located in more developed areas, where the Pirates received many more votes than in structurally disadvantaged regions.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50601 - Political science
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Politics
ISSN
0263-3957
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
40
Issue of the periodical within the volume
4
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
18
Pages from-to
510-526
UT code for WoS article
000537171500001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85085696724