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Digital Tools, Democratic Affordances and Participation in a Networked Party: the Czech Pirate Party

Acta Politologica
Volume 16 (2024): Issue 2 (December 2024)
By: Tomáš Martínek and  Michal Malý  
Open Access
|Dec 2024

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.14712/1803-8220-16_2024 | Journal eISSN: 1803-8220 | Journal ISSN: 1804-1302
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Language: English
Page range: 84 - 104
Published on: Dec 31, 2024
Published by: Charles University, Faculty of Social Sciences
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 2 issues per year
Keywords:
Pirate Party,
Network Party,
Digital Party,
Intra-party Voting,
Deliberation,
Digital Democratic Affordance,
Participation Platforms
Related subjects:
History,
Topics in history,
Economic history,
Philosophy,
Political philosophy and social philosophy,
Social sciences,
Sociology,
Political sociology,
Political science,
Political science, other

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