What is it about?
This paper is about the 2009 election in Iceland which was an early election following the global credit crunch in 2008 and an economic crash Iceland. The paper explains and establishes that this election was a critical election in Iceland, in which a restructuring of the determinants of the vote occurred - followed by indicators of a realignment in the 2013 election.
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Why is it important?
This paper is an important contribution both for Icelandic political science as well as political science in general. In the paper it is explained and analyzed how events such as the global credit crunch and a financial crash of country, impacts voting behavior and politics in the long-term.
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This publication is important to me as it describes major events in Icelandic politics and is an important contribution for a better understanding of voting patterns in Iceland - for how and why the change.
Eva H. Önnudóttir
University of Iceland
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This page is a summary of: Critical Election in the Wake of an Economic and Political Crisis: Realignment of Icelandic Party Voters?, Scandinavian Political Studies, October 2016, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9477.12085.
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