The book explores ideas and practices of democratic policies in Iceland in the light of deliberative democratic theories. The focus is on the prevailing understanding of democratic politics and how it is manifested in  governance, ideas of democratic responsibility, media, education and the political discourse. The workings of democray are examined both before the economic crisis of 2008 and in its aftermath when there were burgeoning experiments with new types of democratic plitics. Ten authors contribute to the book edited by Vilhjálmur Árnason og Henry Alexander Henrysson.

Guðmundur Jónsson writes one of the esays titled "Popular Attitudes Towards Democracy until the Financial Crash of 2008".