Iceland’s ‘crowd-sourced’ constitution may have stalled, but the experience offers lessons for constitutional reform in other states

Landemore, Hélène (2014) Iceland’s ‘crowd-sourced’ constitution may have stalled, but the experience offers lessons for constitutional reform in other states. LSE European Politics and Policy (EUROPP) Blog (24 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. As Hélène Landemore writes, what followed was a ‘crowd-sourced’ project which ultimately fell at the final hurdle. However she argues that the experience did show that it is possible to create a kind of constitutional process which is not limited to elites.

Item Type:	Online resource (Website)
Official URL:	http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/
Additional Information:	© 2014 The Author(s)
Divisions:	LSE
Subjects:	J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe)
Date Deposited:	31 Mar 2017 10:13
Last Modified:	13 Sep 2024 19:16
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/71870

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