@article{2014:koschmieder:klarmachen,
title = {Klarmachen zum Ändern? Die Piratenfraktion nach zwei Jahren im Berliner Abgeordnetenhaus},
year = {2014},
note = {After entering the Berlin state parliament, the Pirate Party intended
to do many things “differently”, especially in the fields of
transparency, involvement of party members, hierarchy within the
parliamentary group, and party discipline. They indeed began
implementing their ideas, but after two years’ time they have
already refrained from some of them. To foster transparency, the
Pirate Party’s parliamentarians published many documents, their
appointments, and their income. However, today they choose to hold
their meetings in private more readily than two years ago. Becoming
more and more professional, the representatives are meanwhile less
concerned with the participation of ordinary members which is
decreasing anyway. The chairmen’s attempt to increase the party’s
executive powers was stopped by the parliamentary group, but they were
unable to prevent the emergence of an informal hierarchy. The group
also developed a de facto party discipline since most parliamentarians
generally vote with the colleague who is the expert on the respective
topic. Although the Pirate Party has given up on some changes, in many
ways it is still “different”. [ZParl, vol. 45, no. 2, pp. 365 –
382]},
journal = {ZParl Zeitschrift für Parlamentsfragen},
pages = {365--382},
author = {Koschmieder, Carsten},
volume = {45},
number = {2}
}