Referendums as resistance: international pressures and nationalist recoil in Iceland

@article{Helgadttir2021ReferendumsAR,
  title={Referendums as resistance: international pressures and nationalist recoil in Iceland},
  author={Oddn{\'y} Helgad{\'o}ttir and J{\'o}n Gunnar {\'O}lafsson},
  journal={Journal of European Public Policy},
  year={2021},
  pages={1-21}
}
This paper examines how referendums on internationally contested issues can activate nationalist discourses. To this end, it carries out a case study of the ‘Icesave conflict’ between Iceland, the ... 
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