Epistemic Democracy – following the crowd’s knowledge

• Published in: Veftímaritið Stjórnmál og stjórnsýsla
• Main Author: Ólafsson, Jón
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Icelandic
• Published: Stjórnsýslustofnun 2016
• Subjects: Epistemic democracy; constitutional council; constitution; Iceland; crisis; Þekkingarmiðað lýðræði; stjórnlagaráð; stjórnarskrá; Ísland; hrun; Kjarni; Varpa; sami
• Online Access: http://www.irpa.is/article/view/a.2016.12.2.15; https://doi.org/10.13177/irpa.a.2016.12.2.15

During the democratic awakening in Iceland during and after the financial crisis of 2008 it was evident that different groups based their demands for more or deeper democracy on different conceptions of democracy. Yet their demands had a common core: more democracy meant greater public influence on...