Populism and Constitutional Reform. The Case of Italy

Blokker, Paulus Albertus

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-37401-3_2

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“…The populist conceptualization of the people as a homogeneous group makes populism necessarily anti-pluralistic (Abts & Rummens, 2007;Müller, 2016;Mudde & Rovira Kaltwasser, 2017). In populism, '[c]onstituent power, rather than being the power of the multitude, becomes the power of the majority' (Blokker, 2020).…”

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Do populist parties in government produce unconstitutional policies? Evidence from Austria, 1980–2021

KÖNIG¹,

SWALVE

2022

European J Political Res

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In a rising number of countries, populist parties participate in coalition governments. While there exists a consensus that populism is incompatible with core tenets of liberal democracy on a conceptual level, we know much less about whether or not the participation of populist parties in government constitutes a threat to liberal democracy in practice. We study the impact of populist parties in coalition governments using a novel dataset of more than 2000 laws that were under review at the Austrian Constitutional Court between 1980 and 2021. We provide evidence that the court did not find laws passed by governments that included a populist party unconstitutional more often than those passed by non‐populist governments. Our findings indicate that the Austrian Freedom Party did moderate its policy while in office. The results imply that it is necessary to distinguish policy positions in party manifestos and party rhetoric from policies actually implemented by governments.

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Section: Populism and Constitutionalismmentioning

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Do populist parties in government produce unconstitutional policies? Evidence from Austria, 1980–2021

KÖNIG¹,

SWALVE

2022

European J Political Res

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Italy and Post–World War II Constitutionalism

Martinico¹

2021

Filtering Populist Claims to Fight Populism

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Populism and Civil Society

Arato¹,

Cohen²

2021

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Populism and Civil Society: The Challenge to Constitutional Democracy is a theoretical work that draws on extensive secondary literature as well as comparative analysis of cases. The aim is to assess the significance of what is now a global phenomenon—the populist challenge to constitutional democracy. After defining populism using the methods of immanent criticism and ideal typic construction, the book proceeds to examine the challenge in terms of its four main organizational forms: movement mobilization, political party, government, and regime. It considers the important questions: “why populism?” and “why now?” Without presupposing the authoritarian logic of the phenomenon in the definition, the book seeks to demonstrate this logic through the reconstruction of the main elements used by advocates to identify populism. It shows that authoritarian logic is not fully realized in every empirical form of populism and considers why this is so for many movement and party forms, and even populists “in” government vs. populism as “the” government. We identify the historical examples of the latter as “hybrid” regimes blending authoritarian elements and residual democratic forms. The book then proceeds to consider the uneasy relationship of populism to constitutionalism and presents populism as a form of abusive or instrumental “constitutionalism” often relying on the alleged permanence of the quasi-revolutionary constituent power. It concludes by outlining a non- and anti-populist project of democratization and social justice, distinguishing between the “popular” and the “populist,” and outlining a program based on the plurality of democracies and the rescue of some of left populism’s “host ideologies.”

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Populism and Constitutional Reform. The Case of Italy

Cited by 12 publications

References 22 publications

Do populist parties in government produce unconstitutional policies? Evidence from Austria, 1980–2021

Do populist parties in government produce unconstitutional policies? Evidence from Austria, 1980–2021

Italy and Post–World War II Constitutionalism

Populism and Civil Society

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