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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Main Author: Thorvaldur Gylfason
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Iceland
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/05775132.2016.1257289
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