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
3 - Mimetism and Parasitism in Action: Sovereignism and Identity Politics versus Post–World War II Constitutional Openness
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
In this chapter, I will analyse a case study that is crucial to exploring the way in which populists understand identity politics, while in subsequent chapters, I will investigate the perspective of politics of immediacy. The concepts of mimetism and parasitism presented in Chapter 1 will be tested, and the notion of sovereignism (‘sovranismo’) – frequently alluded to in the Italian debate and elsewhere – will be used as a case study.
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- Filtering Populist Claims to Fight PopulismThe Italian Case in a Comparative Perspective, pp. 63 - 98Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021