Book contents
- 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
2 - Italy and Post–World War II Constitutionalism
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
For research like that carried out in this book, diachronic comparison and historical research are essential to show why some of the ambiguities that remained after World War II favoured the emergence of different waves of populism in Italy. The aim of this chapter is twofold: on the one hand, I shall clarify why the Italian case is so important to study the relationship between constitutionalism and populism. On the other hand, Italian political culture partly explains the variety of populisms experienced in the country.
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- Filtering Populist Claims to Fight PopulismThe Italian Case in a Comparative Perspective, pp. 29 - 62Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021