Irony: I could not access my own comparative paper on the Pirate Party so had to ask for a colleague to download it for me.
Anyway, the paper is out and I actually like it:
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
It's also a return to PhD times when I had to explain I do not study *real* pirates!
link.springer.com
Where have all the Pirates gone? strategic party interactions in the electoral stagnation, rise, and fall of the Pirates - Comparative European Politics
Comparative European Politics - This paper addresses two related questions. First, why did some of the many Pirate Parties that emerged at the turn of the millennium fail to gain traction, while...