Iceland: Political Developments and Data in 2022
Abstract In 2022, Icelandic politics returned to normal. In the two previous years, Covid‐19 had dominated the political agenda—ideology and politics as normal were largely absent. In the 2021 parliamentary elections, the three‐way coalition of the Left Greens, Independence Party, and Progressive Pa...
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crwiley:10.1111/2047-8852.12397 2024-06-23T07:54:01+00:00 Iceland: Political Developments and Data in 2022 Back to Normal after Covid—Government Popularity Goes Down HARDARSON, ÓLAFUR TH. 2023 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/2047-8852.12397 en eng Wiley http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/termsAndConditions#vor European Journal of Political Research Political Data Yearbook volume 62, issue 1, page 230-238 ISSN 2047-8844 2047-8852 journal-article 2023 crwiley https://doi.org/10.1111/2047-8852.12397 2024-05-31T08:14:26Z Abstract In 2022, Icelandic politics returned to normal. In the two previous years, Covid‐19 had dominated the political agenda—ideology and politics as normal were largely absent. In the 2021 parliamentary elections, the three‐way coalition of the Left Greens, Independence Party, and Progressive Party (PP) kept its majority in Althingi —the first majority government to do so since the bank crash of 2008. This victory was clearly the result of a successful fight against the epidemic, and the government parties decided to continue their coalition cooperation. In 2022, support for the government and for the government parties went down, just as had been the case for all governments since the financial crisis of 2008. One of the opposition parties, the Social Democratic Alliance, made huge gains in the opinion polls—under a new leadership. Increasing ideological tensions could be observed within the government coalition, which includes both the parliamentary party furthest to the left and furthest to the right. Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland Wiley Online Library European Journal of Political Research Political Data Yearbook 62 1 230 238 |
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Abstract In 2022, Icelandic politics returned to normal. In the two previous years, Covid‐19 had dominated the political agenda—ideology and politics as normal were largely absent. In the 2021 parliamentary elections, the three‐way coalition of the Left Greens, Independence Party, and Progressive Party (PP) kept its majority in Althingi —the first majority government to do so since the bank crash of 2008. This victory was clearly the result of a successful fight against the epidemic, and the government parties decided to continue their coalition cooperation. In 2022, support for the government and for the government parties went down, just as had been the case for all governments since the financial crisis of 2008. One of the opposition parties, the Social Democratic Alliance, made huge gains in the opinion polls—under a new leadership. Increasing ideological tensions could be observed within the government coalition, which includes both the parliamentary party furthest to the left and furthest to the right. |
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