Electoral Politics in Crisis After the Great Recession: Change, Fluctuations and Stability in Iceland

The book explores how politics in Iceland have been transformed in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, focusing on whether the short-term shock has permanently changed politics, political behavior, and the Icelandic party system. It also examines whether the Iceland experience is reflective of broader patterns in other Western democracies.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 182 pages
Publication date: 31 May 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

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.

Weight: 370g
Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032072999