The Populist Assault on the Constitution
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781351115742" target="_blank" >10.4324/9781351115742</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The Populist Assault on the Constitution
Original language description
Populism is widely understood as a disruptive phenomenon, contesting constitutional rules, the rule of law, and the separation of powers. The chapter contributes to the conceptualization and analysis of the populist phenomenon in relation to modern constitutionalism. The intention is to bring out not only the disruptive dimension of populism and its reactionary nature (with regard to liberal constitutionalism) but equally to highlight the alternative approach to constitutionalism populism represents. The chapter 'deconstructs' populism in its relation to constitutionalism, in arguing that the promotion of majoritarianism constitutes the populists' main relation to the constitution, that populists portray an instrumentalist, political, and ad hoc relation to the law, and that populists are deeply sceptical with regard to the formalistic, positivistic approach to the law in liberal constitutionalism. Subsequently, populist tendencies in relation to constitutionalism are explored in the context of the Italian 'season of constitutional reform' (which started in the early 1990s). The analysis will regard both the constitutional politics and modes and procedures of two reform processes (Berlusconi's and Renzi's attempts at reform in 2005-6 and 2014-16, respectively) and the terms of the substance of reforms, regarding issues of strong leadership, the reduction of checks and balances, and the simplification of politics.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50401 - Sociology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Book/collection name
Multiple populisms : Italy as democracy's mirror
ISBN
978-0-8153-6171-8
Number of pages of the result
20
Pages from-to
196-215
Number of pages of the book
251
Publisher name
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
Place of publication
London
UT code for WoS chapter
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