The Icelandic experience challenges the view that constitutional process must be exclusionary and secretive

Landemore, Hélène (2014) The Icelandic experience challenges the view that constitutional process must be exclusionary and secretive. Democratic Audit Blog (23 Jul 2014). Website.

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In the wake of the financial crisis which nearly bankrupted Iceland, the country began a process to create a new constitution which could maintain the confidence of a public understandably disenchanted with their political elite. What followed was a ‘crowd-sourced’ project which ultimately fell at the final hurdle. However the experience did show that it is possible to create a kind of constitutional process which is not limited to elites, according to Hélène Landemore.

Item Type:	Online resource (Website)
Official URL:	http://www.democraticaudit.com/
Additional Information:	© 2014 Democratic Audit UK
Divisions:	LSE
Subjects:	J Political Science > JA Political science (General)
Date Deposited:	20 Aug 2014 13:40
Last Modified:	11 Dec 2024 13:45
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/59123

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