Electoral Politics in Crisis After the Great Recession
Change, Fluctuations and Stability in Iceland
Author(s)
Önnudóttir, Eva H.
Helgason, Agnar Freyr
Harðarson, Ólafur Th.
Thórisdóttir, Hulda
Language
EnglishAbstract
This book examines to what extent politics in Iceland have been transformed in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis. The book focuses on whether the short-term sudden shock caused by the Great Recession has permanently transformed politics, political behaviour and the Icelandic party system or whether its effect was primarily transitory. These questions remain highly relevant to the wider field of political science, as the book examines under what circumstances sudden shocks lead to permanent changes in a political system. As such, the book situates the post-crisis Icelandic case both temporally and comparatively and evaluates to what extent the Iceland experience is reflective of broader patterns found in other Western democracies, particularly those other countries that were also hard hit by the Great Recession (e.g. Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Spain and Italy). This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of Nordic politics, Icelandic politics and society, electoral studies, political parties and party systems, representative democracy, political behaviour and more broadly to European and comparative politics.
Keywords
Politics and governmentDOI
10.4324/9780429436345ISBN
9780429790683, 9780429436345, 9781138349384, 9781032072999, 9780429790683Publisher
Taylor & FrancisPublisher website
https://taylorandfrancis.com/Publication date and place
2022Imprint
RoutledgeSeries
Routledge Advances in European Politics,Classification
Politics and government