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...
Main Author: | |
---|---|
Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
Language: | unknown |
Subjects: | |
Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/05775132.2016.1257289 |
id |
ftrepec:oai:RePEc:mes:challe:v:59:y:2016:i:6:p:480-490 |
---|---|
record_format |
openpolar |
spelling |
ftrepec:oai:RePEc:mes:challe:v:59:y:2016:i:6:p:480-490 2024-04-14T08:13:34+00:00 Iceland’s New Constitution Is Not Solely a Local Concern Thorvaldur Gylfason http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/05775132.2016.1257289 unknown http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/05775132.2016.1257289 article ftrepec 2024-03-19T10:35:03Z 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. Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) |
institution |
Open Polar |
collection |
RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) |
op_collection_id |
ftrepec |
language |
unknown |
description |
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. |
format |
Article in Journal/Newspaper |
author |
Thorvaldur Gylfason |
spellingShingle |
Thorvaldur Gylfason Iceland’s New Constitution Is Not Solely a Local Concern |
author_facet |
Thorvaldur Gylfason |
author_sort |
Thorvaldur Gylfason |
title |
Iceland’s New Constitution Is Not Solely a Local Concern |
title_short |
Iceland’s New Constitution Is Not Solely a Local Concern |
title_full |
Iceland’s New Constitution Is Not Solely a Local Concern |
title_fullStr |
Iceland’s New Constitution Is Not Solely a Local Concern |
title_full_unstemmed |
Iceland’s New Constitution Is Not Solely a Local Concern |
title_sort |
iceland’s new constitution is not solely a local concern |
url |
http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/05775132.2016.1257289 |
genre |
Iceland |
genre_facet |
Iceland |
op_relation |
http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/05775132.2016.1257289 |
_version_ |
1796311568094330880 |