Abstract
In recent years, the Icelandic Pirate Party-established in 2012-has been winning wide public support in the Icelandic political arena. This paper examines why the party emerged in Iceland despite the country’s stable four-party system. We conclude that the Icelandic Pirate Party has emerged as a response to the closed political decision-making process that has been a feature of Iceland thus far. The closed political decision-making process, which is at the core of traditional Icelandic and neoliberal politics since 1990s, led the country to an economic crisis in 2008,whichhad a major impact on the lives of local citizens. The majority of the citizens are against Iceland’s insular politics, and therefore were drawn to support the Icelandic Pirate Party, which aims at including citizens in the political decision making-process by utilizing their ICT (Information and Communication Technology) system.
