@article{2014:bullwinkel:innerparte,
title = {Innerparteiliche Willensbildung und Entscheidungsprozesse durch digitale Partizipation. Ein Praxistest des Konzepts der Liquid Democracy},
year = {2014},
note = {The Pirate Party organisations in North Rhine-Westphalia and in Berlin
use the Internet to implement intraparty Liquid Democracy. Their aim
is to give as many party members as possible the opportunity to
participate in the party’s decision making processes. At the same
time they want to tie decisions of the regional executive board and
the regional parliamentary party to the political intent of the party
base. LiquidFeedback is the key digital tool to achieve these goals. A
selected number of case studies reveals, however, a rather great
discrepancy between ambition and reality. Despite the rather low
thresholds of digital participation fewer party members participate in
intraparty decision making by way of the Internet than by party
conventions. Furthermore, decisions made by way of digital
participation within the Pirate Party have little, if not to say no
influence on the final decisions taken by the executive board or the
parliamentary party in the state legislatures. Against this background
the claim of the Pirate Party to represent a new model of intraparty
participation by using the tools of LiquidFeedback must be questioned.
[ZParl, vol. 45, no. 2, pp. 382 – 401]},
journal = {ZParl Zeitschrift für Parlamentsfragen},
pages = {382--401},
author = {Bullwinkel, Bastian and Probst, Lothar},
volume = {45},
number = {2}
}