Sweden Found an Effective Way of Broadening their Politics | PirateTimes
How Sweden Found an Effective Way of Broadening their Politics August 13, 2012 · by Anton Nordenfur · in Learning (tips&tricks) In less than two years the Swedish Pirate Party has grown from a single-issue movement to an all-encompassing party with a growing political platform. All of this was achieved through a democratic process of crowdsourcing, mostly thanks to the party’s new official “broadening blog”. The Swedish Pirate Party started out in 2006 as a single-issue political party, focusing on only a handful of issues concerning copyright, patents and privacy. In the early years, most members agreed that this was the way to go – they would sail into parliament, …