Faculty of Business Administration

Grétar Þór Eyþórsson

Professor
460 8627

Location

  • R250
  • Borgir rannsóknarhús

Specialisation

Political science and public administration Local Government and Politics Regional development Survey research West Nordic studies

General information

Courses

SRS2106200
Local Government: Administration, management and operation
SRS3107250
Local Government: Administration, management and operation
STE2106120
Strategic Planning
VIH0106100
Practical skills
AÐR3107250
Research methods
BRK3107250
Change and Crisis Management
SRS2106200
Local Government: Administration, management and operation
SRS3107250
Local Government: Administration, management and operation
GRI2106110
Marketing Research - Attitude Surveys
STE2106120
Strategic Planning
STJ2306110
Management III (The Organisation)
VIH0106100
Practical skills
AÐR3107250
Research methods

Education

1999
Göteborg University, Ph.D. Political Science and Public Administration
1992
Göteborg University, Ph. Licentiat Political Science and Public Administration
1989
, BA

Research

2025
Local Councillors in Europe II Dataset and Appendices
2025
Viðbrögð við COVID-19 á Íslandi. Akureyrarbær sem tilvik.
2025
COVID-19 faraldurinn.
2024
When Siglufjörður and Ólafsfjörður became one. An Icelandic story of diversification from above.
2024
COVID-19 handling strategy in Iceland: centralised and expert-led
2024
Citizen trust in local government in the Nordic Countries during the COVID-19 Pandemic
2024
Online business academia in the digital economy
2024
CBDCs at the Crossroads: Seizing Opportunities and Confronting Threats in the Financial Frontier
2023
DIGITAL CURRENCIES, SWOT ANALYSIS
2022
Power to Rule: The Perception of Power and Relevance in Local Educational Networks in Europe.
2022
Structural changes and how they are perceived in two Icelandic towns.
2022
Municipal amalgamations and local housing prices
2022
Municipal amalgamations and local housing prices
2022
Sustainable Governance Indicators 2022. Iceland Report.
2021
Forskningsmetoder til surveys.
2021
Spurningakannanir. Um uppbyggingu, orðalag, orðanotkun og framkvæmd (2021)
2021
Territorial patterns and relations in Iceland.
2020
Félagsleg og pólitísk þátttaka innflytjenda á Íslandi.
2020
Kjörsókn innflytjenda á Íslandi 2017-2018.
2020
Territorial patterns and relations in Finland.
2020
Territorial patterns and relations in Portugal.
2020
Local State–Society Relations in Iceland
2020
Local Democracy in the West-Nordic Countries
2020
Sustainable Governance Indicators 2020. Iceland Report.
2019
Energy in East Iceland A case study report from the ESPON project: BRIDGES -Territories with geographical specificities
2019
Social Innovation in East Iceland: "Fish Factory Creative Centre" in Stöðvarfjörður
2019
Samfélag án aðgreiningar?
2019
Social impacts of climate change and adaptation strategies in the region of East Iceland.
2019
Decision-making efficiency, accountability and democracy in inter-municipal cooperation arrangements: The case of Iceland
2019
Do municipal amalgamations affect interregional migration?
2019
Sustainable Governance Indicators 2019. Iceland Report.
2018
The West Nordic Region and the Arctic.
2018
Sustainable Governance Indicators 2018. Iceland Report.
2018
The Impact of Amalgamations on Services in Icelandic Municipalities
2017
Bigger and Stronger Together: How Icelandic Municipalities Solve Their Lack of Capacity and Scale Economy
2017
Reasons for Inter-municipal Cooperation: A Comparative Analysis of Finland, Iceland and Norway
2017
Abstainers’ reasoning for not voting: The Icelandic Local Government Election 2014.
2017
Sustainable Governance Indicators 2017. Iceland Report.
2016
A Comparative Analysis of Amalgamation Reforms in Selected European Countries
2016
Samstarfsverkefni Sveitarfélaga.
2016
Sustainable Governance Indicators 2016. Iceland Report.
2015
Inter-Municipal Cooperation in Iceland. The results from the survey.
2015
ESPONontheRoad. Bringing closer ESPON evidence for decision making
2014
Efficiency, capacity and democratic deficits. Arguments for and against municipal amalgamations in Iceland for 70 years
2014
Sveitarstjórnarkosningar 2014. Hverjar eru ástæður dræmrar kjörsóknar?
2013
Vestnorden. A functional region?
2013
Explaining the low voter turnout in Iceland’s 2010 local government elections
2013
Spurningakannanir: Um orð, orðanotkun, uppbyggingu og framkvæmd.
2013
Vægi atkvæða og pólitískt jafnrétti
2012
Reinforcing the municipal level in Iceland: Ideas, policies and implementations
2011
Isländska kommunpolitikers och parlamentsledamöters inställning.
2011
Kommunsammanslagningar på Island.
2009
Búsetuskilyrði á Íslandi: Hverju sækist fólk eftir?
2009
Municipal Amalgamations in Iceland. Past, Present and Future.
2009
Mótun nýs sveitarfélags á norðanverðum Tröllaskaga.
2008
Efling sveitarstjórnarstigsins og verkaskipting ríkis og sveitarfélaga.
2005
Viðhorf til sameiningar sveitarfélaga.
2004
Das politische System Islands
2004
Future Challenges to Small Municipalities. The cases of Island, Faroe Islands and Åland Islands.
2004
Labour Market Services in the Nordic Periphery.
2003
Jarðgöng undur Hellisheiði eystri. Samfélagsáhrif.
2003
Af smáum sveitahreppum og stöndugum kaupstöðum.
2003
Fólk og Fyrirtæki.
2002
Sameining Sveitarfélaga. Áhrif og afleiðingar.
2002
Barnomsorg i Reykjavík kommun
1999
Das politische System Islands
1999
Iceland
1998
Kommunindelningspolitik i Island.
1997
Das politische System Islands
1995
Inför en ny kommunindelning.