Icelandic Constitutional Reform

Author : Ágúst Þór Árnason,Catherine Dupré
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-12
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781351031882

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Icelandic Constitutional Reform by Ágúst Þór Árnason,Catherine Dupré Pdf

This collection documents, analyses, and reflects on the Icelandic constitutional reform between 2009 and 2017. It offers a unique insight into this process by providing first-hand accounts of its different stages and core issues. Its 12 substantive chapters are written by the main actors in the reform, including the Chair of the Constitutional Council that drafted the 2011 Proposal for a New Constitution. Part I opens with an address by the President of the Republic and positions the constitutional reform in its full complexity and longer-term perspective, going beyond the frequent portrayal of that process in international discussion as being solely a result of the 2008 financial crisis. Part II offers a nuanced and contextualised reflection on Iceland’s innovative approach to consultation and drafting involving lay participants, including its twenty-first-century digital take on ‘the people,’ which attracted international attention as ‘crowdsourcing.’ Part III analyses the main constitutional amendment proposals, and focuses on natural resources and environmental protection, which lie at the heart of Iceland’s identity. The final part reflects on the reform’s wider significance and includes an interview with the current Prime Minister, who is now taking the reform forward. The volume provides a basis for reflection on a groundbreaking constitutional reform in a democratic context. This long and complex process has challenged and transformed the ways in which constitutional change can be approached, and the collection is an invitation to discuss further the practical and theoretical dimensions of Iceland’s experience and their far-reaching implications.

Author : Xenophon Contiades,Alkmene Fotiadou
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317083894

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Participatory Constitutional Change by Xenophon Contiades,Alkmene Fotiadou Pdf

This book explores the recent trend of enhancing the role of the people in constitutional change. It traces the reasons underlying this tendency, the new ways in which it takes form, the possibilities of success and failure of such ventures as well as the risks and benefits it carries. To do so, it examines the theoretical aspects of public participation in constitutional decision-making, offers an analysis of the benefits gained and the problems encountered in countries with long-standing experience in the practice of constitutional referendums, discusses the recent innovative constitution-making processes employed in Iceland and Ireland in the post financial crisis context and probes the use of public participation in the EU context. New modes of deliberation are juxtaposed to traditional direct-democratic processes, while the reasons behind this re-emergence of public involvement narratives are discussed from the aspect of comparative constitutional design. The synthetic chapter offers an overview of the emerging normative and comparative issues and provides a holistic approach of the role of the people in constitutional change in an attempt to answer when, where and how this role may be successfully enhanced. The work consists of material specifically written for this volume, and authored by prominent constitutional scholars and experts in public participation and deliberative processes.

Author : David A. Carrillo
Publisher : Berkeley Public Policy Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07
Category : Constitutional history
ISBN : 087772458X

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The Icelandic Federalist Papers by David A. Carrillo Pdf

Author : Trude Haugli,Anna Nylund,Randi Sigurdsen,Lena R.L. Bendiksen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-02
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004382817

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Children’s Constitutional Rights in the Nordic Countries by Trude Haugli,Anna Nylund,Randi Sigurdsen,Lena R.L. Bendiksen Pdf

The book presents a comparative study of children’s constitutional rights in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. The authors discuss the value of enshrining children’s rights in national constitutions in addition to implementing the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). Central issues are whether enshrining children’s rights in the Constitution improves implementation and enforcement of those rights by providing advocacy tools and by mandating courts, legislators, policy-makers and practitioners to take children’s rights seriously. The study assesses whether the Nordic constitutions are in line with the child rights approach of the CRC both on a general level and in detail in three domains; the best interests of the child, participation rights, and the right to respect for family life.

Author : Valur Ingimundarson,Philippe Urfalino,Irma Erlingsdóttir
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317209737

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Iceland's Financial Crisis by Valur Ingimundarson,Philippe Urfalino,Irma Erlingsdóttir Pdf

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.

Author : Xenophon Contiades,Alkmene Fotiadou
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317083887

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Participatory Constitutional Change by Xenophon Contiades,Alkmene Fotiadou Pdf

This book explores the recent trend of enhancing the role of the people in constitutional change. It traces the reasons underlying this tendency, the new ways in which it takes form, the possibilities of success and failure of such ventures as well as the risks and benefits it carries. To do so, it examines the theoretical aspects of public participation in constitutional decision-making, offers an analysis of the benefits gained and the problems encountered in countries with long-standing experience in the practice of constitutional referendums, discusses the recent innovative constitution-making processes employed in Iceland and Ireland in the post financial crisis context and probes the use of public participation in the EU context. New modes of deliberation are juxtaposed to traditional direct-democratic processes, while the reasons behind this re-emergence of public involvement narratives are discussed from the aspect of comparative constitutional design. The synthetic chapter offers an overview of the emerging normative and comparative issues and provides a holistic approach of the role of the people in constitutional change in an attempt to answer when, where and how this role may be successfully enhanced. The work consists of material specifically written for this volume, and authored by prominent constitutional scholars and experts in public participation and deliberative processes.

Author : L.Wolf- Phillips
Publisher : Springer
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1972-06-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349015290

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Comparative Constitutions by L.Wolf- Phillips Pdf

Author : Laura Ervo,Pia Letto-Vanamo,Anna Nylund
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783030748517

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Rethinking Nordic Courts by Laura Ervo,Pia Letto-Vanamo,Anna Nylund Pdf

This open access book examines whether a distinctly Nordic procedural or court culture exists and what the hallmarks of that culture are. Do Nordic courts and court proceedings share a distinct set of ideas and values that in combination constitute the core of a regional legal culture? How do Europeanisation, privatisation, diversification and digitisation influence courts and court proceedings in the Nordic countries? The book traces the genesis and formation of Nordic courts and justice systems to provide a richer comprehension of contemporary Nordic legal culture, and an understanding of the relationship between legal cultural stability and change. In answering these questions, the book provides models for conceptualising procedural culture. Nordic procedural culture has partly developed organically and is partly also the product of deliberate efforts to maintain a certain level of alignment between the Nordic countries. Studying Nordic cooperation enables us to gain a deeper understanding of current regional, European and global harmonisation processes within procedural law. The influx of supranational European law, increased use of alternative dispute resolution and growth in regulation density that produces a conflict between specialisation and coherence, have tangible impact on the role of courts in a democratic society, the form of court proceedings and court structures. This book examines whether and why some trends exert more tangible, or perhaps simply more perceptible, influence on procedural culture than others.

Author : Joel I. Colon-Rios
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Constituent power
ISBN : 9780198785989

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Constituent Power and the Law by Joel I. Colon-Rios Pdf

This book examines the relationship between constituent power and the law, and the place of the former in constitutional history, drawing from constitutional theory beyond the Anglo-American sphere, with new material made available for the first time to English readers.

Author : Helle Krunke,Björg Thorarensen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-23
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781509910946

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The Nordic Constitutions by Helle Krunke,Björg Thorarensen Pdf

This book analyses the Nordic constitutional systems of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden in a comparative context. It has two main aims: first to fill a gap in the literature by providing an accessible English language account of the Nordic constitutions, and second to provide a comparative analysis of them, revealing their similarities and differences within their political, historical and cultural contexts. In this respect, the book challenges the assumption that the Nordic countries form a homogeneous constitutional system due to their cultural and historical affinities, a view not necessarily supported by a close comparative examination. A key issue is EU membership –where the Nordic countries have made different choices at different times – and the book will show how this has affected the individual countries and whether a divide between EU member states (Denmark, Finland and Sweden) and non-members (Iceland and Norway) has appeared. Another key issue is how the ECHR has impacted the Nordic constitutional systems and whether the convention draws the Nordic systems closer to each other. The book represents a first of its kind in the English language, and will provide constitutional scholars with a valuable comparative resource on the Nordic region.

Author : Valur Ingimundarson,Philippe Urfalino,Irma Erlingsdóttir
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317209744

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Iceland’s Financial Crisis by Valur Ingimundarson,Philippe Urfalino,Irma Erlingsdóttir Pdf

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.

Author : Min Reuchamps,Yanina Welp
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000955248

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Deliberative Constitution-making by Min Reuchamps,Yanina Welp Pdf

This book explains deliberative constitution-making with a special focus on the connections between participation, representation and legitimacy and provides a general overview of what the challenges and prospects of deliberative constitution-making are today. It seeks to provide a more complete picture of what is at stake as a political trend in various places in the world, both theoretically and empirically grounded. Distinctively, the book studies not only established democracies and well-known cases of deliberative constitution-making but also such practices in authoritarian and less consolidated democratic settings and departs from a traditional institutional perspective to have a special focus on actors, and in particular underrepresented groups. This book is of key interest to scholars and students of deliberative democracy, constitutional politics, democratization and autocratization studies, citizen participation and more broadly to comparative politics, public administration, social policy and law.

Author : Jon Gunnar Bernburg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317146261

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Economic Crisis and Mass Protest by Jon Gunnar Bernburg Pdf

Although the triggering effect of economic crises on revolt is a classic sociological topic, crises have until recently mostly triggered large-scale collective action in developing countries. The antigovernment protests that occurred in several European countries in the aftermath of the global financial crisis brought crises to the forefront of collective action research in democratic societies, as well as provide important opportunities for studying how crises can trigger large-scale collective action. This volume focusses on Iceland’s ’Pots and Pans Revolution’, a series of large scale antigovernment protests and riots that took place in Iceland in autumn 2008 and January 2009. The Icelandic case offers a rare opportunity to study processes that can trigger political protest in an affluent, democratic society. The protests took place in the aftermath of a national financial collapse triggered by the global financial crisis in early October 2008. While having almost no tradition of mass protest, Iceland was among the first countries to respond to the global crisis with large-scale protest. The level of public mobilization was exceptionally high (about 25 percent participation rate) and the protests did not stop until they had brought down the ruling government of Iceland. Using qualitative and quantitative data, this volume situates the protest in historical-cultural context and applies social movement theory to explore how the economic crisis ended up triggering the protests, thus providing a step toward understanding why the global financial crisis has triggered public unrest in other countries.

Author : Orri Vesteinsson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2000-05-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780191543029

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The Christianization of Iceland by Orri Vesteinsson Pdf

In this first historical study of High-Medieval Iceland to be published in English, Dr Vesteinsson investigates the influence of the Christian Church on the formation of the earliest state structures in Iceland, from the conversion in 1000 to the union with Norway in 1262. In the history of mankind states and state structures have usually been established before the advent of written records. As a result historians are rarely able to trace with certainty the early development of complex structures of government. In Iceland, literacy and the practice of native history writing had been established by the beginning of the twelfth century; whereas the formation of a centralised government did not occur until more than a hundred years later. The early development of statelike structures has therefore been unusually well chronicled, in the Icelandic Sagas, and in the historical records of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Based on this wealth of material,The Christianization of Iceland is an important contribution to the discussion on the formation of states.

Author : Wilhelm Kristjanson
Publisher : Wallingford
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Icelanders
ISBN : UCAL:$B724146

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The Icelandic People in Manitoba by Wilhelm Kristjanson Pdf

History of the settlers from Iceland in Manitoba who came in the last decades of the nineteenth century.