I am currently on research leave from the University of Iceland. For this semester, I am Leverhulme Visiting Professor at School of Law and Centre for Small States at Queen Mary University in London.
View from my apartment on the lovely QMUL Mile End Campus.
Last December, I was happy to contribute to a seminar about Donald Trump, his character and how he fits in with previous Republican presidents. The seminar was organized by the Icelandic Institute of International Affairs and the Icelandic Political Science Association and held at the University of Iceland.
The entry co-authored with Sverrir Steinsson (University of Iceland) has been accepted for publication in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics. The Oxford Research Encyclopaedias are published by Oxford University Press. These overview articles, which are freely accessible, will be a great resource for students and scholars. My co-author and I are glad to contribute to it. We thank Olivia Houck, a graduate student at the University of Iceland, for excellent feedback on earlier drafts of this article.
The post-referee, pre-typeset version of the article can be found here. The typeset article will be available here by the end of June 2017.
It would be unwise to call for new elections. Not every party leader has been given a chance to form a new government. In addition, it would be perfectly natural to give the party leaders who have failed to form a government a second chance to lead such negotiations.
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One reason why the government coalition negotiations are so difficult is due to the collapse of centrist parties. The current crop of parties are highly diverse, with many parties being new and reform-minded. This makes it harder to find common ground on policies, and the old and new parties do not trust each other to be loyal cooperators in any hypothetical government.
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It looks as if there are such ideological divisions between key political parties in Iceland on key political issues, which has delayed successful negotiations for a coalition government. It appears as if the parties are even unable to explore all the issues that divide them deeply.
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The negotiations over the formation of a five-party coalition government are difficult. The issues that the five parties seem to disagree most over are tax policy, fisheries policy and constitutional changes.
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The Left-Greens have been given formal powers by the President to start negotiations in an attempt to form a new government. Whether she will be successful remains to be seen, but it is clear that forming a five-party coalition on the left of the political spectrum will be very difficult. This will difficult, in part because two of the five parties, Bright Future and Viðreisn, do not appear to trust one of those five parties, the Pirate Party, enough to enter into a coalition government with it.
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