Constitutionalism and populism
National political integration and global legal integration
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12915917 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Chris Thornhill (0000-0002-2286-5967, University of Manchester, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-32 |
| Publication date | 2019-10-31 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1752-9719 • E-ISSN: 1752-9727 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1752971919000186 |
| OpenAlex | W2967977315 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 32 |
This article adds to the emergent body of constitutional-theoretical research on populist government. It argues that constitutional analysis has specific importance in explaining the hostility to global legal norms that characterizes many populist or neo-nationalist polities. However, it argues that more classical perspectives in constitutional theory have not provided adequate explanations for this phenomenon. This is because constitutionalism itself misunderstands the sociological foundations of constitutional democracy and it promotes normative models of democracy, based in theories of popular sovereignty and constituent power, which create a legitimational space in which populism can flourish. In contrast, this article sets out a historical-sociological account of national democracy, explaining how democracy has been formed through processes of global norm construction. As a result, the basic subjects imputed to democracy by both constitutionalism and populism only became real on global normative foundations. In advancing these claims, this article presents a global-sociological critique of populism, explaining that populism evolves where the realities of democratic formation enter conflict with the norms of constitutional theory. In so doing, it offers a sociological theory of constitutional democracy that might help to avert democratic self-subversion
Constitutional theory · Constitutionalism · Democracy · Law and economics · Norm (philosophy · Normative · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Popular sovereignty · Populism · Sociology · Sovereignty · Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection · Judicial and Constitutional Studies · Law · Populism, Right-Wing Movements
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Rights and constituent power in the global constitution
Land Grabbing and Global Governance
Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan as Post-Soviet Rentier States
Legitimacy and class rule in commonwealth Africa
Strength and Commitment of the State
From national populism to national corporatism
World War II in the Lives of Black Americans
The Siamese Twins
U.S. Ratification of Human Rights Conventions
Populism and Democracy
Group Rights and Individual Rights in Japan
Global Violence and Nationalizing Wars in Eurasia and America
Populism versus Democracy
Trust the People! Populism and the Two Faces of Democracy
A New Winning Formula
Democracy and Populism
State Power and Military Nationalism in Latin America
The Role of Subnational Politicians in Distributive Politics
Resource Wealth and Political Regimes in Africa
The People and Populism
The Changing Logic of Political Citizenship
Face-to-Face
The New Far-Right in Brazil and the Construction of a Right-Wing Order
The Portuguese Industrial Elite and Its Corporative Relations
The Transformation of British Public Politics After the First World War
The Historical Formation of the State in Latin America
Democracy and Populism
Populist Mobilization
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,67 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2024 (2) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |