Populism in a Constitutional Key: Constituent Power, Popular Sovereignty and Constitutional Identity

Corrias, Luigi

doi:10.1017/s1574019616000031

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“…The populist attitude towards the Constitutional Court mostly respects the formal framework of the body, and its status, including the safeguards of its autonomy; however, the composition and the competences of the Constitutional Court are often under pressure (Corrias, 2016). As regards the composition, there are two ways to influence the membership of the body.…”

Section: Reforming the Constitutional Court And Constitutional Adjudi...mentioning

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Populism and Liberal Constitutionalism

Szentgáli-Tóth

Simonelli

2023

PGAF

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Our paper focuses on the impact of populism on the functioning of constitutional democracy in Europe. To analyse such a complex issue, a survey has been elaborated, which tries to outline how the current populist tendencies influence the institutional framework of constitutional democracy and to what extent such parties aim and are able to undermine the long-term prevalence of rule of law. To achieve this goal, the survey monitors, amongst others, the use of referenda in European countries; the presence of instruments of participatory and direct democracy; which are the political programme of populist parties, and in particular what are their ambitions concerning institutional reforms; whether the status, the independence, the competence and the composition of the constitutional court and the judiciary are contested. The survey also examines whether the protection standard of the most important fundamental rights are relativized, or are intended to be relativized by the populist parties of the different countries. We approached young constitutional scholars from certain member states, at the initial stage of their academic career, and asked them to fill the survey.

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Populism and Liberal Constitutionalism

Szentgáli-Tóth

Simonelli

2023

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“…67). Whereas, in the context of Brexit, that foundation was juridically present in Article 50(1) and its reference to national constitutional requirements, this did not – and could not – succeed in guarding against the ‘politics of immediacy’ that a secessionist discourse entails (Corrias, 2016, p. 12). In turn, in not building more confidently into this provision the democratic conditions that a thoughtfully negotiated decisional secession might have called for, EU law failed to protect those finding themselves vulnerable to majoritarian tendencies at the national level, whether these be minorities defined by nationality of other EU member states or groups othered for their political disagreement with the core message of national emancipation that Brexit entailed.…”

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Was Brexit a Form of Secession?

Frantziou

2022

Global Policy

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As a form of legal separation taking place within a quasi‐federal framework, Brexit displayed important conceptual similarities with secession, in that it was predicated upon notions of collective identity and aspirations of renewed self‐government. This article examines the interrelationship between Brexit, secession as a legal concept, and secessionism as a political phenomenon. It advances two main arguments: at a first stage, it highlights that while Brexit ideologically aligns with secessionism, it could not have met any sustained international law definition of secession itself. However, the constitutional constraint to the European Union's formal status as an association of states (Staatenverbund) as opposed to a federation (Staatsverband) has rendered its withdrawal provision (Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union (TEU)) unduly impervious to the important practical parallels between the Brexit process and decisional, that is, negotiated, forms of secession. The article goes on to argue that an active recognition of aspects of decisional secession within the EU constitutional framework could have allowed for a more complex and dialogical resolution of Brexit than the conditions set up by the unilateral withdrawal clause allowed.

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“…9 Vid. Corrias, 2016: Según un primer enfoque el populismo constituiría una parte intrínseca de las democracias liberales; o en palabra de Arditi (2017), un «modo de representación» de las mismas. Para Benjamin Manin (1998), por ejemplo, esta vinculación se habría hecho más evidente en las actuales «democracias de audiencias», surgidas a partir de la década de los 70 con el comienzo del declive de los tradicionales partidos de masas y la expansión global de los grandes medios de comunicación.…”

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Repensar la relación entre consenso y disenso ante el «momento populista». Un reto democrático

Zapirain

2022

Oxímora

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Las democracias se han definido como los sistemas políticos que mejor han sabido conjugar un nivel de consenso sobre un orden social determinado, con una capacidad de disenso que garantizase el pluralismo de las mismas. En este artículo se hará una relectura crítica de algunas de las principales corrientes democráticas ante este complicado equilibrio: desde los postulados clásicos de liberales y republicanos, a las teorías antagonistas de segunda mitad del siglo XX. Esta discusión se encuentra hoy frente a un nuevo reto por la emergencia del llamado «momento populista», y la posibilidad de que el disenso asociado a él desborde los consensos democráticos vigentes. En este sentido, se realizará una aproximación a la relación entre democracia y populismo desde enfoques postestructuralistas como el de Benjamin Arditi, para intentar repensar la relación entre ambas, entendiendo el populismo como periferia difusa de la democracia.

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Populism in a Constitutional Key: Constituent Power, Popular Sovereignty and Constitutional Identity

Abstract: Populism – Constitutional Theory – Paradox of Constituent Power – Popular Sovereignty – Representation – Constitutional Identity – Democracy

Cited by 68 publications

References 33 publications

Populism and Liberal Constitutionalism

Populism and Liberal Constitutionalism

Was Brexit a Form of Secession?

Repensar la relación entre consenso y disenso ante el «momento populista». Un reto democrático

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