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4 - Mimetism and Parasitism in Action: Politics of Immediacy and the Case of the Referendum

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 November 2021

Giuseppe Martinico
Affiliation:
Scuola Universitaria Superiore Sant’Anna (Pisa)
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In this chapter, I shall investigate the aspect of the politics of immediacy, exploring how populists understand the referendum. Following an idea endorsed by Davide Casaleggio, the mastermind of the Rousseau platform,1 former Minister Riccardo Fraccaro2 denounced the insufficiency of classic representative democracy and stressed the need for more direct democracy, especially with the advent of new technologies.

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Filtering Populist Claims to Fight Populism
The Italian Case in a Comparative Perspective
, pp. 99 - 123
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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