Iceland's financial crisis : the politics of blame, protest, and reconstruction
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Iceland's financial crisis : the politics of blame, protest, and reconstruction
（Routledge advances in European politics, 127）
Routledge, 2016
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Description
Being the first casualty of the international financial crisis, Iceland was, in many ways, turned into a laboratory when it came to responding to one of the largest corporate failures on record.
This edited volume offers the most wide-ranging treatment of the Icelandic financial crisis and its political, economic, social, and constitutional consequences. Interdisciplinary, with contributions from historians, economists, sociologists, legal scholars, political scientists and philosophers, it also compares and contrasts the Icelandic experience with other national and global crises. It examines the economic magnitude of the crisis, the social and political responses, and the unique transitional justice mechanisms used to deal with it. It looks at backward-looking elements, including a societal and legal reckoning - which included the indictment of a Prime Minister and jailing of leading bankers for their part in the financial crisis - and forward-looking features, such as an attempt to rewrite the Icelandic constitution. Throughout, it underscores the contemporary relevance of the Icelandic case. While the Icelandic economic recovery has been much quicker than expected; it shows that public faith in political elites has not been restored.
This text will be of key interest to scholars, policy-makers and students of the financial crisis in such fields as European politics, international political economy, comparative politics, sociology, economics, contemporary history, and more broadly the social sciences and humanities.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Valur Ingimundarson, Philippe Urfalino, and Irma Erlingsdottir
Part I
The Road to Economic Disaster
1. Iceland's Financial Crisis: An Economic Perspective
Gylfi Zoega
2. The Rise and Fall of a Financial Empire: Looking at the Banking Collapse from the Inside Out
Gudrun Johnsen
3. The Political Economy of Iceland's Boom and Bust
Stefan Olafsson
Part II
The Political and Societal Responses to the Crisis
4. Political Opportunity, Framing, and Mobilization in Iceland's Post-Crash Protests
Jon Gunnar Bernburg and Anna Soffia Vikingsdottir
5. Contentious Politics, Political Expediency, and the Real Costs of the Icesave Debt
Helga Kristin Hallgrimsdottir and Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly
6. Democratic Practices, Governance, and the Financial Crash
Vilhjalmur Arnason
7. The Politics of Transition, Memory, and Justice: Assigning Blame for the Crisis
Valur Ingimundarson
8. The Strategy of Redistribution: Iceland's Way Out of the Crisis
Stefan Olafsson
Part III
The Politics of Iceland's Constitutional Reform
9. Icelandic Constitution-Making in Comparative Perspective
Jon Elster
10. Constitution on Ice
Thorvaldur Gylfason
11. Constitutional Revision: A Weak Legislative Framework Compounded by Political Disputes
Salvoer Nordal
12. Constituent Power and Authorization: Anatomy and Failure of a Constitution-Making Process
Pasquale Pasquino
13. The Constitutional Council: Objectives and Shortcomings of an Innovative Process
Bjoerg Thorarensen
14. The Constituent Assembly: A Study in Failure
Jon Olafsson
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