Italian Populism and Constitutional Law: Strategies, Conflicts and Dilemmas

ISBN-13: 9783030374037 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 314 str.

Giacomo Delledonne; Giuseppe Martinico; Matteo Monti

Recenzje

"This collection of essays edited by Giacomo Delledonne, Giuseppe Martinico, Matteo Monti and Fabio Pacini raises fundamental questions about the relationship between populism and constitutional law, one of the most debated questions in comparative constitutional studies of the last decade." (Eleonora Bottini, iconnectblog.com, April 24, 2021)

"The authors of this excellent book, dealing with more democratic, 'true' populism, convincingly argue that the constitutional developments in the last decades in Italy have been compatible with the ideals of constitutionalism despite the populist arguments and failed reforms." (Gábor Halmai, Zeitschrift für öffentliches Recht, Vol. 75, 2020)

"Having analyzed the chapters, all well written and structured, one can only applaud the effort, brilliantly successful, of the authors to examine, in a timely and thorough manner, what has been the impact of populism on our constitutional system." (Ferdinando La Placa, Forum di Quaderni Costituzionali, Issue 2, 2020)

Spis treści

Chapter 1. Introduction: A Constitutional Viewpoint on Italian Populism

by Giacomo Delledonne, Giuseppe Martinico, Matteo Monti and Fabio Pacini

Chapter 2. Populism and Constitutional Reform. The Case of Italy

by Paul Blokker

Part I

Chapter 3. Is there a populist turn in the Italian Parliament? Continuity and discontinuity in the non-legislative procedures

by Cristina Fasone

Chapter 4. Populism and Referendum: The Italian Debate from a Comparative Perspective

by Giuseppe Martinico

Chapter 5. Populism and Constitutional Amendment

by Pietro Faraguna 

Chapter 6. Populism and Law-making Process

by Fabio Pacini 

Chapter 7. Populism and Government: Continuity and Paradoxes in the Yellow-Green Experiment

by Giacomo Delledonne

Chapter 8. “Kicking the Can down the Road”. Deferring Fiscal Adjustment as a Premise for Italian Budgetary Populism

by Giovanni Boggero

Part II

Chapter 9. Italian Populism and Fake News on the Internet: A New Political Weapon in the Public Discourse

by Matteo Monti

Chapter 10. Rise of Populism and the Five Star Movement model: An Italian Case Study

by Marco Bassini

Chapter 11. Populism, Science and the Italian Democracy

by Marta Tomasi 

Chapter 12. “Le cose sono un po’ più complesse”. Constitutional Law and Religion in Italy and the populist challenge

by Pasquale Annicchino 

Chapter 13. The Italian Way to Migration: Was It “True” Populism? Populist Policies As Constitutional Antigens

by Simone Penasa 

Chapter 14. Does a sub-state dimension of populism exist?

by Alessandro Sterpa 

Chapter 15. Populism and Criminal Justice in Italy

by Nicola Selvaggi

O autorze

Giacomo Delledonne is Research Fellow in Comparative Public Law at the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy. He is co-convenor of the research group on Subnational Constitutions of the International Association of Constitutional Law. He has written extensively in four languages (Italian, English, French, and Spanish). His first monograph, L'omogeneità costituzionale negli ordinamenti composti (2017), was awarded with the 10th Opera Prima-Sergio P. Panunzio Prize, organized by the Italian Association of Constitutional Law Scholars.

Giuseppe Martinico is Associate Professor of Comparative Public law at the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy. Previously he was García Pelayo Fellow at the Centro de Estudios Politicos y Constitucionales (CEPC), Madrid, and Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute, Florence. He is also Honorary Professor at the University of Henan, China, and Research Fellow at the Centre for Studies on Federalism, Turin.

Matteo Monti is a researcher in the Faculty of Law at the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy.

Fabio Pacini is Research Fellow in Constitutional Law at the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, and Adjunct Professor of Comparative Law at the Tuscia University, Italy. He coordinates a research group on parliamentary law at the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna.

Blurb

This edited volume explores the relationship between constitutionalism and populism in the Italian context. Italian populism is of interest to comparative lawyers for many reasons. Firstly, the country has a long-lasting tradition of anti-parliamentarism over the course of its history as a unitary state. After the 2018 general election, it has turned into the first European country in which two self-styled populist parties formed a coalition government. Although it collapsed in August 2019, many issues that it had raised remain. Secondly, as Italy is a founding member of the European Communities, the constitutional implications of populist politics have to be considered not only within the national framework but also in a wider context. This book argues that the relationship between populism and constitutionalism should not be seen in terms of mutual exclusion and perfect opposition. Indeed, populism frequently relies on concepts and categories belonging to the language of constitutionalism (majority, democracy, people), offering a kind of constitutional counter-narrative.

Giacomo Delledonne is Research Fellow in Comparative Public Law at the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy.

Giuseppe Martinico is Associate Professor of Comparative Public law at the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy.

Matteo Monti is a researcher in the Faculty of Law at the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy.

Fabio Pacini is Research Fellow in Constitutional Law at the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy.