Populism and Constitutionalism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23697164 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jan‐werner Müller (Politics, Princeton University), Jan-Werner Mueller (Princeton University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Pages | 590-606 |
| Publication date | 2017-11-06 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | The Oxford Handbook of Populism (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198803560.013.28 |
| OpenAlex | W2786413590 |
| ISBN | 9780198803560 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 21 |
| References cited | 7 |
Many scholars hold that populism and constitutionalism cannot go together: populists, it is claimed, are against institutions in general, and against checks and balances as provided for in constitutions in particular. Instead, so the conventional wisdom goes, they assert an unrestrained popular will, or an unmediated relationship between a charismatic leader and the people. This chapter disputes this picture, building on a definition of populism whereby populists are not just anti-elitists, but also necessarily anti-pluralists, in order to argue that populists can coherently write constitutions to fix a supposed foundational popular will. In that sense, populists do not have to be uncomfortable with a usage of constitutions as a set of constraints; but they are opposed to constitutions as pluralism-enabling and pluralism-preserving devices (and, more particularly, as offering democracy-constitutive rights which could be used to change the populists’ preferred constitutional identity).
Aesthetics · Constitutionalism · Democracy · Epistemology · Identity (music) · Law and economics · Pluralism (philosophy) · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Populism · Sociology · Judicial and Constitutional Studies · Law · Legal Language and Interpretation · Philosophy · Populism, Right-Wing Movements
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Populist Hyperpartisans
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Popular Constitutionalism and the Case for Judicial Review
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Constitutionalism
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Clarifying a Contested Concept
Populism and Progressivism as Constitutional Categories
Contemporary Left-wing Populism in Latin America
| Unique citing works | 21 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 14 |