Electoral Politics in Crisis After the Great Recession

Eva H. Önnudóttir is Professor of Political Science at the University of Iceland, Iceland.Agnar Freyr Helgason is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Iceland, Iceland.Ólafur Th. Hardarson is Professor of Political Science at the University of Iceland, Iceland, where he served as Dean of the Social Sciences for 12 years. Hulda Thórisdóttir is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Iceland, Iceland. All authors are on the Steering committee of the Icelandic National Election Study.

• 1. The consequences of the Great Recession on party politics and voters in Iceland: Theoretical framework 2: A precursor to a crisis: Politics in the era of the Icelandic economic miracle 3. The political consequences of the economic collapse 4. The issue preferences of the mass public and their social structural antecedents 5. Satisfaction with democracy, political trust and confidence in politics 6. Political participation and engagement 7. A crumbling party system? 8. The party system and new parties in post-crisis Iceland 9. Party–voter alignments before and after the Great Recession 10. The transformative impact of the Great Recession on the political system

"Descriptively informative and insightful, analytically ambitious and stimulating, this book is a must read for any student of comparative electoral behaviour."Hermann Schmitt, University of Manchester, UK"The book is essential reading for anyone interested in Icelandic politics. It analyses the impact of the great recession against the backdrop of long-term changes among the electorate with a view to discerning short-term and long-term factors. It is easy to read yet analytically and methodologically advanced."Gunnar Helgi Kristinsson, University of Iceland, Iceland