{"id":3014,"date":"2016-10-28T11:45:20","date_gmt":"2016-10-28T11:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uni.hi.is\/baldurt\/?p=3014"},"modified":"2016-10-28T11:45:20","modified_gmt":"2016-10-28T11:45:20","slug":"eleven-interesting-things-about-the-parliamentary-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/baldurt\/2016\/10\/28\/eleven-interesting-things-about-the-parliamentary-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Eleven interesting things about the parliamentary elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/eyjan.pressan.is\/frettir\/2016\/10\/23\/baldur-thorhallsson-11-markverd-atridi-vid-fylgi-flokkanna-rett-fyrir-kosningar\/\">Far-Right populist parties do not appear to have any significant support in Iceland, unlike in our Nordic neighbors.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>A radical party desiring to undertake major reforms of the Icelandic political system does have major support.<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0Social Democratic Alliance is on the brink of collapsing. Social Democrats have seen a significant decline in support across the Nordic states, and Iceland is no exception.<\/li>\n<li>A leftwing party dominates the left spectrum in Icelandic politics, which is inconsistent with the rest of the Nordic states where the Social Democrats tend to dominate the left spectrum.<\/li>\n<li>A pro-European liberal centre-right party appears likely to take a few parliamentary seats in this election, which is largely unprecedented in Iceland but not in the Nordic states.<\/li>\n<li>The conservative Independence Party is struggling. The party no longer dominates political discourse in Icelandic politics.<\/li>\n<li>The electorate appears likely to punish the incumbent government for the third election in a row.<\/li>\n<li>Both the Independence Party and Social Democratic Alliance have splintered, with Vi\u00f0reisn departing from the Independence Party, and Bright Future departing from the Social Democratic Alliance.<\/li>\n<li>The centrist parties are struggling, which is consistent with international trends.<\/li>\n<li>The traditional four parties have lost a lot of support to newer parties, which reflects similar trends in the rest of Europe.<\/li>\n<li>According to polls, the next government may possibly be comprised of a radical reform party, an old traditional left-green party and two weak social democratic parties. That would be a coalition government without precedent in Icelandic history.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Far-Right populist parties do not appear to have any significant support in Iceland, unlike in our Nordic neighbors. A radical party desiring to undertake major reforms of the Icelandic political system does have major support. The\u00a0Social Democratic Alliance is on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/baldurt\/2016\/10\/28\/eleven-interesting-things-about-the-parliamentary-elections\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":360,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/baldurt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/baldurt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/baldurt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/baldurt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/360"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/baldurt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3014"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/baldurt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3015,"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/baldurt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3014\/revisions\/3015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/baldurt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/baldurt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/baldurt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}