Iceland’s ‘crowd-sourced’ constitution may have stalled, but the experience offers lessons for constitutional reform in other states

In the wake of the financial crisis which nearly bankrupted Iceland, the country began a process to create a new constitution which could maintain the confidence of a public understandably disenchanted with their political elite. As Hélène Landemore writes, what followed was a ‘crowd-sourced’ project which ultimately fell at the final hurdle. However she argues that the experience did show that it is possible to create a kind of constitutional process which is not limited to elites.