This study intends to analyze the Icelandic constitutional dynamic initiated in 2009 — one year after the financial crisis began. While introducing the reader to a sociologic and historic perspective, the author embarks on, through this work, a comprehensive analysis of the Icelandic constitution innovative reform process. Indeed, more than a simple reform, the process aimed to be a constitutional rebuilding, in both substance and wording. However, this process did not achieve the desired result, that is to say the coproduction, the adoption, and the implementation of a constitution that embodies the new Icelandic social contract. The author details obstacles – such as cumbersome bureaucratic and legal procedures – that explain why the new Constitution has yet to be approved.

This study is part of a series of case studies realised by associated experts in the framework of the International Network for Reflection and Proposals on a Plural Approach for Constitutions’ (INC) work and analyses, initiated by the Institute for Research and Debate on Governance (IRG).

To find out more:

Icelandic Constitutional History and the Current Constitution Reform: www.institut-gouvernance.org/fr/video/fiche-video-27.html

The Role of New Technologies in the Constitutional Reform Process of Iceland: www.institut-gouvernance.org/fr/video/fiche-video-29.html