Iceland’s New Constitution Is Not Solely a Local Concern
Is democracy failing in Iceland? – asks the author. The financial collapse of 2008 provoked a response from the Parliament to canvass 950 randomly selected citizens about revising the constitution, which many believed enabled the crisis. In a national referendum, two-thirds of voters accepted a newl...
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/05775132.2016.1257289 |
| Summary: | Is democracy failing in Iceland? – asks the author. The financial collapse of 2008 provoked a response from the Parliament to canvass 950 randomly selected citizens about revising the constitution, which many believed enabled the crisis. In a national referendum, two-thirds of voters accepted a newly drawn constitution. But Parliament has not yet ratified it. |
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