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Report (including policy recommendations) on the Pirate innovations and the link between responsiveness and political trust and legitimacy of these party movements

  • 1. ROR icon University of New York in Prague
  • 2. ROR icon Institute of International Relations
  • 3. ROR icon Charles University
  • 4. ROR icon Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris
  • 5. ROR icon Metropolitan University Prague
  • 6. ROR icon Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
  • 7. ROR icon National University of Distance Education
  • 8. Instituto de Políticas y Bienes Públicos (IPP, CSIC)
  • 9. Masaryk University, Faculty of Social Studies
  • 10. ROR icon Anglo-American University
  • 11. ROR icon Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
  • 1. ROR icon Université Catholique de Lille
  • 2. ROR icon University of Groningen
  • 3. ROR icon University of Trento
  • 4. ROR icon Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
  • 5. ROR icon Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

Description

Deliverable 4.4 of the ActEU project with a report on the analyses focusing on the electorate and members of new challenger parties in Europe: the Czech and German Pirate parties, La France Insoumise, Movimento 5 Stelle and Podemos. 

This report explores five innovative parties the German and Czech Pirate Parties, Podemos in Spain, Five Star Movement in Italy and La France Insoumise, all of which emerged in the aftermath of the Great Recession, and which are a reaction to the perceived responsiveness deficit of traditional political parties. While these parties attract protest voters they also in particular, the Pirate parties often focus on younger voter segments. They also belong to the most visible innovators in the European party ecosystem, both in terms of focussing on neglected policy domains and in terms of digital politics. Our report is focussed on the latter, asking whether the novel digital elements introduced by these parties can lead to increased responsiveness and, by extension, to increased trust in and legitimacy of politics.

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Funding

European Commission
ActEU - Towards a new era of representative democracy - Activating European citizens’ trust in times of crises and polarization 101094190

Dates

Submitted
2024-02-28