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
4 - Mimetism and Parasitism in Action: Politics of Immediacy and the Case of the Referendum
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 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 PopulismThe Italian Case in a Comparative Perspective, pp. 99 - 123Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021