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<p>The Icelandic Pirate Party was first elected in 2013 and served for four consecutive terms in the Icelandic parliament. However, in the most recent (snap) election of November 2024, the Pirates did not manage to get re-elected to parliament. In this study, we examine the development of the Pirate Party using a theoretical framework that sees the life cycle of political parties as divided into three major stages: an ‘identification’ stage, an ‘organisation’ stage, and a ‘stabilisation’ stage. According to this model, a party’s survival depends on its success in moving from one stage to the next. Drawing from diverse data sources, we map the history of the party; to what extent it followed the expectations of the model and how this speaks to its initial aspirations for a new way of doing politics. Our results suggest that the party’s historical trajectory fits the theoretical framework remarkably well: the party appears to have entered the ‘organisation’ stage in 2016–2017 and has since then been struggling to reach the ‘stabilisation’ stage. Whether this struggle contributed to their recent electoral loss is hard to say, but it seems that they are not quite just another establishment party—at least not yet.</p>

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Pirates of the Atlantic: at a decade’s end

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    2026年2月1日

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  • Viktor Orri Valgarðsson,
  • Silja Bára Ómarsdóttir,
  • Eva H. Önnudóttir

摘要

The Icelandic Pirate Party was first elected in 2013 and served for four consecutive terms in the Icelandic parliament. However, in the most recent (snap) election of November 2024, the Pirates did not manage to get re-elected to parliament. In this study, we examine the development of the Pirate Party using a theoretical framework that sees the life cycle of political parties as divided into three major stages: an ‘identification’ stage, an ‘organisation’ stage, and a ‘stabilisation’ stage. According to this model, a party’s survival depends on its success in moving from one stage to the next. Drawing from diverse data sources, we map the history of the party; to what extent it followed the expectations of the model and how this speaks to its initial aspirations for a new way of doing politics. Our results suggest that the party’s historical trajectory fits the theoretical framework remarkably well: the party appears to have entered the ‘organisation’ stage in 2016–2017 and has since then been struggling to reach the ‘stabilisation’ stage. Whether this struggle contributed to their recent electoral loss is hard to say, but it seems that they are not quite just another establishment party—at least not yet.