Table of Contents
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 WWII – 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.
Giuseppe Martinico, Scuola Universitaria Superiore Sant’Anna (Pisa)
Giuseppe Martinico is Full Professor of Comparative Public Law at the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies. Previously, he was García Pelayo Fellow at the Centre for Political and Constitutional Studies (CEPC), Madrid, and Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute, Florence.