Electoral Politics in Crisis After the Great Recession

Change, Fluctuations and Stability in Iceland
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-138-34938-4
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 198 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 470 g

Reihe: Routledge Advances in European Politics

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.

The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Önnudóttir, Eva H.

Helgason, Agnar Freyr

Harðarson, Ólafur Th.

Thórisdóttir, Hulda

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The consequences of the Great Recession on party politics and voters in Iceland: Theoretical framework 2: A precursor to a crisis: Politics in the era of the Icelandic economic miracle 3. The political consequences of the economic collapse 4. The issue preferences of the mass public and their social structural antecedents 5. Satisfaction with democracy, political trust and confidence in politics 6. Political participation and engagement 7. A crumbling party system? 8. The party system and new parties in post-crisis Iceland 9. Party–voter alignments before and after the Great Recession 10. The transformative impact of the Great Recession on the political system

Über Autor(innen)

Eva H. Önnudóttir is Professor of Political Science at the University of Iceland, Iceland.

Agnar Freyr Helgason is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Iceland, Iceland.

Ólafur Th. Hardarson is Professor of Political Science at the University of Iceland, Iceland, where he served as Dean of the Social Sciences for 12 years.

Hulda Thórisdóttir is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Iceland, Iceland.

All authors are on the Steering committee of the Icelandic National Election Study.