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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionThe time for a four-day week has arrivedA new experiment from Iceland confirms what many of us have long suspected: reducing working hours improves...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Women in power: countries with female leaders suffer six times fewer Covid deaths and will recover sooner from recessionThey did not underestimate the risks, focused on preventative measures and prioritized long-term social wellbeing...
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Published in: Home‘The system is a reflection of who we are’: an interview with Birgitta Jónsdóttir“It's not only about us versus the system. The system is really us.” As Iceland’s radical Pirate party approaches...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Iceland: portrait of the pirate as a young politicianHalldór Auðar Svansson, 34, is the first Pirate Party member to be part of a majority coalition, in Reykjavik. He...
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Published in: HomeWorld Forum for Democracy 2015: A report from the democracy incubator hackathonWe are at the start of a digital democratic revolution that will revitalize democracy and help restore trust between...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaA “velvet Grexit” is a trick. Argentina, Ecuador and Iceland prove default can work.Temporary Eurozone exit plan is a smokescreen for shock doctrine tactics that would condemn the Greeks to perpetual...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKIceland's unfinished revolution? An interview with Hordur TorfasonThe award-winning human rights activist credited with starting Iceland's 'pots and pans revolution', discusses with...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Connecting the Basque and Icelandic cases: an ethnographic chronicle about democratic regenerationThough they may seem like unlikely companions, both Iceland and the Basque Country undertook unique democratic...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?A cold reception: the rise of anti-Islamic sentiments in Iceland?A row over the planned construction of Iceland’s first purpose-built mosque has dominated the county’s most recent...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Democracy on ice: a post-mortem of the Icelandic constitutionIn spite of clear popular support, Iceland's new crowd-sourced constitution was recently killed by politicians. An...
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Published in: HomeReal democracy still missingThose of us who were actively working for a sustainable and democratic society in Iceland have always wondered when...
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Published in: HomeWhen politics strike back: the end of the Icelandic constitutional experiment?A wave of enthusiasm took Icelanders through the 2012 referendum after the 2008 crash, once the widely-praised...
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Published in: HomeA short history of banks and democracyThe extraordinary bounce-back of the banks reveals the most disturbing, but least obvious, largely invisible,...
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Published in: HomeFrom the people to the people, a new constitution
What the future holds in store and what will be the fate of the bill for a new constitution is hard to say at this...
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Published in: HomeReal democracy in Iceland?After the crash that destroyed Iceland's economy, Icelanders started to take an interest in new forms of political...
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Published in: HomeIceland: direct democracy in actionARCHIVE: The Icelandic experiment raises many intriguing questions: how do citizens of a country get called to this...
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Published in: HomeThe Icelandic constitutional experimentThis Saturday, a year after a Constitutional Council has written a draft constitution with the help of citizens,...
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Published in: HomeIcelandic constitution on the wayAfter Iceland’s financial collapse in 2008, Icelandic citizens wanted a plan to clean up the island’s political...
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Published in: HomeSolomon comes to Iceland
Guilty? Not guilty? The verdict handed down this week by an Icelandic court found former Prime Minister Geir...
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Published in: HomeHope from below: composing the commons in Iceland
Never again can the world be told by the custodians of the old that the people cannot be relied upon to write the...
