Iceland’s ‘crowd-sourced’ constitution may have stalled, but the experience offers lessons for constitutional reform in other states
In the wake of the financial crisis which nearly bankrupted Iceland, the country began a process to create a new constitution which could maintain the confidence of a public understandably disenchanted with their political elite. As Hélène Landemore writes, what followed was a ‘crowd-sourced’ projec...
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London School of Economics and Political Science
2014
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| Online Access: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/71870/ http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/71870/1/blogs.lse.ac.uk-Icelands%20crowd-sourced%20constitution%20may%20have%20stalled%20but%20the%20experience%20offers%20lessons%20for%20constituti.pdf http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/ |
| Summary: | In the wake of the financial crisis which nearly bankrupted Iceland, the country began a process to create a new constitution which could maintain the confidence of a public understandably disenchanted with their political elite. As Hélène Landemore writes, what followed was a ‘crowd-sourced’ project which ultimately fell at the final hurdle. However she argues that the experience did show that it is possible to create a kind of constitutional process which is not limited to elites. |
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