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- Filtering Populist Claims to Fight Populism
- Comparative Constitutional Law and Policy
- Filtering Populist Claims to Fight Populism
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Introduction and Acknowledgements
- 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–World War II 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
- Bibliography
- Index
7 - Filtering Populist Claims to Fight Populism: Final Remarks
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 November 2021
- Filtering Populist Claims to Fight Populism
- Comparative Constitutional Law and Policy
- Filtering Populist Claims to Fight Populism
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Introduction and Acknowledgements
- 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–World War II 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
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Throughout this book, I have maintained that populism and constitutionalism, and in particular post–WWII constitutionalism (of which Italy is a prime example, as seen in Chapter 2) cannot be reconciled, due to the exclusionary, holistic and majoritarian nature of populism. As we saw in Chapter 1, this does not mean that populism and constitutionalism cannot have something in common, namely the importance of emotional reactions and the distrust of political power.
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- Filtering Populist Claims to Fight PopulismThe Italian Case in a Comparative Perspective, pp. 170 - 185Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021