Liberal Party (Iceland, Historical)
The Liberal Party ( is, Frjálslyndi flokkurinn) was a short-lived political party in Iceland in the late 1920s. History The party was formed in 1927 by a group of MPs sitting under the Independence Party (Iceland, historical), Independence Party name.Vincent E McHale (1983) ''Political parties of Europe'', Greenwood Press, p523 In 1923 the original Independence Party had allied with former members of the recently dissolved Home Rule Party (Iceland), Home Rule Party to form the Citizens' Party (Iceland, 1923), Citizens' Party in order to unite against the new Class (social), class parties, the Progressive Party (Iceland), Progressive Party (representing the farmers), and the Social Democratic Party (Iceland), Social Democrats (representing the workers). The majority of the Citizens' Party formed the Conservative Party (Iceland), Conservative Party the following year, but its left wing under former Prime Minister (Iceland), Prime Minister Sigurður Eggerz kept going under the Ind ...
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Sigurður Eggerz
Sigurður Eggerz (1 March 1875 – 16 November 1945) was minister for Iceland from 21 July 1914 to 4 May 1915, and prime minister of Iceland from 7 March 1922 to 22 March 1924. Career He was a member of Alþingi from 1911 to 1915, 1916 to 1926 and 1927 to 1931. He was minister of Finance of Iceland from 1917 to 1920. He served as speaker of the Althing in 1922. He was one of the politicians that founded the Independence Party in 1929. He graduated in laws from University of Copenhagen in 1903. Family His wife was named Solveig Kristjánsdóttir, and they had two children: Erna and Kristján Pétur. Kristján Pétur Eggerz entered the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where he served in various diplomatic posts, including as Ambassador to Germany, before retiring to Iceland and becoming a bestselling author. His granddaughter, is author Sólveig Eggerz. References 1875 births 1945 deaths Sigurður Eggerz Sigurður Eggerz Sigurður Eggerz (1 March 1875 – 16 Novem ...
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Progressive Party (Iceland)
The Progressive Party ( is, Framsóknarflokkurinn, FSF) is an agrarian political party in Iceland. For most of its history, the Progressive Party has governed with the Independence Party. Since 30 November 2017, the party has been a coalition partner in the Katrín Jakobsdóttir government. The current chairman of the party is Sigurður Ingi Jóhannsson who was elected on 2 October 2016. His predecessor was Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson, who was elected on 18 January 2009 and was Prime Minister of Iceland from 23 May 2013 to 5 April 2016. History The Progressive Party was founded to represent Iceland's farmer class, which went from being dominant from settlement to the late 19th century to rapidly dwindling in the early 20th century as a result of industrialization and urbanization. Its primary support still comes from the rural areas of Iceland and its policy roots still stem from its origin as an agrarian party, although it has since come to self-identify as a liberal par ...
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Political Parties Disestablished In 1929
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Political Parties Established In 1927
Politics (from , ) is the set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups, or other forms of power relations among individuals, such as the distribution of resources or status. The branch of social science that studies politics and government is referred to as political science. It may be used positively in the context of a "political solution" which is compromising and nonviolent, or descriptively as "the art or science of government", but also often carries a negative connotation.. The concept has been defined in various ways, and different approaches have fundamentally differing views on whether it should be used extensively or limitedly, empirically or normatively, and on whether conflict or co-operation is more essential to it. A variety of methods are deployed in politics, which include promoting one's own political views among people, negotiation with other political subjects, making laws, and exercising internal and external force, including wa ...
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Defunct Liberal Political Parties
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Defunct Political Parties In Iceland
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1927 Icelandic Parliamentary Election
Parliamentary elections were held in Iceland on 9 July 1927.Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p961 Voters elected all 28 seats in the Lower House of the Althing and eight of the fourteen seats in Upper House.Nohlen & Stöver, p954 The Progressive Party emerged as the largest party in the Lower House, winning 13 of the 28 seats. Results Notes References {{Icelandic elections Elections in Iceland Iceland Parliament In modern politics, and history, a parliament is a legislative body of government. Generally, a modern parliament has three functions: Representation (politics), representing the Election#Suffrage, electorate, making laws, and overseeing ...

Prime Minister (Iceland)
The politics of Iceland take place in the framework of a parliamentary system, parliamentary representative democracy, representative democratic republic, whereby the President of Iceland, president is the head of state, while the prime minister of Iceland serves as the head of government in a multi-party system. Executive (government), Executive power is exercised by the government. Legislative power is vested in both the government and the parliament, the Althingi. The judiciary is independent of the executive and the legislature. Iceland is arguably the world's oldest assembly democracy, and has been rated as a "full democracy" in 2021. Executive branch , President of Iceland, President , Guðni Th. Jóhannesson , Independent (politician), Independent , 1 August 2016 , - , Prime Minister of Iceland, Prime Minister , Katrín Jakobsdóttir , Left-Green Movement , 30 November 2017 Elected to a four-year term, the President of Iceland, President has limited powers and is po ...
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Conservative Party (Iceland)
The Conservative Party ( is, Íhaldsflokkurinn) was a conservative political party in Iceland between 1924 and 1929. History The party was established in 1924 by a majority of the members of the Citizens' Party.Vincent E McHale (1983) ''Political parties of Europe'', Greenwood Press, p520 It won the 1926 Upper House elections and the 1927 parliamentary elections, in which it received 42.% of the vote. In 1929 it merged with the Liberal Party to form the Independence Party. Ideology The party supported the full independence of Iceland and separation from the Danish Danish may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to the country of Denmark People * A national or citizen of Denmark, also called a "Dane," see Demographics of Denmark * Culture of Denmark * Danish people or Danes, people with a Danish a ... crown. References Defunct political parties in Iceland Political parties established in 1924 Political parties disestablished in 1929 1924 establishments i ...
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Social Democratic Party (Iceland)
The Social Democratic Party ( is, Alþýðuflokkurinn), officially the People's Party, was a social-democratic political party in Iceland. It was founded in 1916, as the political representation of the trade unions of Iceland. History In 1920 its first member of the Althing, the Icelandic parliament, Jón Baldvinsson was elected. The party would contest elections to the Althing with little success until 1934, when the party obtained 10 parliamentary seats. Iceland shifted towards a proportional representation system later that year which political scientist Amel Ahmed attributes to the rising electoral threat that the Social Democratic Party posed to the Independence Party and Progressive Party. Between 1926 and 1940, the party was a member of the Labour and Socialist International.Kowalski, Werner (1985)''Geschichte der sozialistischen arbeiter-internationale: 1923–1919'' Berlin: Dt. Verl. d. Wissenschaften (in German). The party led the government of Iceland three time ...
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Class (social)
A social class is a grouping of people into a set of hierarchical social categories, the most common being the upper, middle and lower classes. Membership in a social class can for example be dependent on education, wealth, occupation, income, and belonging to a particular subculture or social network. "Class" is a subject of analysis for sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists and social historians. The term has a wide range of sometimes conflicting meanings, and there is no broad consensus on a definition of "class". Some people argue that due to social mobility, class boundaries do not exist. In common parlance, the term "social class" is usually synonymous with "socio-economic class", defined as "people having the same social, economic, cultural, political or educational status", e.g., "the working class"; "an emerging professional class". However, academics distinguish social class from socioeconomic status, using the former to refer to one's relatively sta ...
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Independence Party (Iceland, Historical)
The Independence Party ( is, Sjálfstæðisflokkurinn) was a political party in Iceland between 1907 and 1927. Along with the Home Rule Party, it was one of the dominant parties in the country during the early 20th century. History The party was established in 1907 by a merger of the Democratic Party and the National Defence Party.Vincent E McHale (1983) ''Political parties of Europe'', Greenwood Press, pp521–522 During the two elections in 1916 it was split into two factions; Þversum and Langsum. The Þversum faction finished second in the August Upper House elections, with the Langsum faction in fifth, whilst the positions were reversed in the October general elections. The party ran as a single entity in the 1919 elections, emerging as the second largest party after the Home Rule Party. It remained in the government with the Home Rule Party and Progressive Party until 1920, when the Home Rule Party began to govern alone.McHale, p529 In the 1922 Upper House elections ...
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