Iceland’s Financial Crisis: The Politics of Blame, Protest, and Reconstruction

Cover......Page 1
Title Page......Page 4
Copyright Page......Page 5
Table of Contents......Page 6
List of figures......Page 8
List of tables......Page 10
Notes on contributors......Page 11
Preface......Page 14
List of abbreviations......Page 16
Introduction......Page 18
Part I The road to economic disaster......Page 36
1 Iceland’s financial crisis: an economic perspective......Page 38
2 The rise and fall of a financial empire: looking at the banking collapse from the inside out......Page 54
3 The political economy of Iceland’s boom and bust......Page 74
Part II The political and societal responses to the crisis......Page 96
4 Political opportunity, framing, and mobilization in Iceland’s post-crash protests......Page 98
5 Contentious politics, political expediency, and the real costs of the Icesave debt......Page 120
6 Democratic practices, governance, and the financial crash......Page 138
7 The politics of transition, memory, and justice: assigning blame for the crisis......Page 157
8 The strategy of redistribution: Iceland’s way out of the crisis......Page 173
Part III The politics of Iceland’s constitutional reform......Page 202
9 Icelandic constitution-making in comparative perspective......Page 204
10 Constitution on ice......Page 220
11 Constitutional revision: a weak legislative framework compounded by political disputes......Page 237
12 Constituent power and authorization: anatomy and failure of a constitution-making process......Page 247
13 The Constitutional Council: objectives and shortcomings of an innovative process......Page 256
14 The Constituent Assembly: a study in failure......Page 269
Index......Page 290