Filtering Populist Claims to Fight Populism: The Italian Case in a Comparative Perspective

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Filtering Populist Claims to Fight Populism: The Italian Case in a Comparative Perspective

By Giuseppe Martinico
Cambridge University Press November 2021

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ISBN-13
9781108496131
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication
November 2021
Format
Hardback
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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The new wave of populism that has emerged over the last five years in Europe and in the US urgently needs to be better understood in a comparative and historical context. Using Italy – including the experiment of a self-styled populist coalition government – as a case study, this book investigates how populists in power borrow, use and manipulate categories of constitutional theory and instruments of constitutional law. Giuseppe Martinico goes beyond treating constitutionalism and populism as purely antithetical to dive deeply into the impact of populism on the activity of some instruments of constitutional democracy, endeavoring to explore their role as possible fora of populist claims and targets of populist attacks. Most importantly, he points to ways in which constitutional democracies can channel populist claims without jeopardizing the legacy of post-World War II constitutionalism. This book is aimed at academics and practicing lawyers interested in populism and comparative constitutional law.

Table of Contents

1. Populist Constitutionalism: An Oxymoron? 2. Italy and Post-World War II Constitutionalism
3. Mimetism and Parasitism in Action: Sovereignism and Identity Politics versus Post WWII – Constitutional Openness
4. Mimetism and Parasitism in Action: Politics of Immediacy and the Case of The Referendum
5. The Assault on Representative Democracy as the Other Side of the Politics of Immediacy
6. The Return of the Imperative Mandate?
7. Filtering Populist Claims to Fight Populism
Final Remarks
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