Anti-constitutional populism

Around the world, populist parties have sprung up in formerly and formally liberal-democratic polities, challenging their existing political parties and leaders, and frequently overwhelming them. These challenges and successes were rarely predicted, arriving so soon after the wave of liberal democratic and constitutional enthusiasms, proclamations and institution-building which peaked in the 1990s. Bringing together scholars from law, political science and philosophy, this collection explores the character of contemporary populisms and their relationships to constitutional democracy. With contributors from around the world, it offers a diverse range of nuanced perspectives on populism as a global phenomenon. Using comparative and multi-disciplinary techniques, this book considers the specifics and similarities of populisms, and raises general questions about their nature and potential futures.

• Introduction: anti-constitutional populism Martin Krygier
• Part I. Populisms: 1. Populist constitutionalism - between democracy and authoritarianism Bojan Bugaric
• 2. Anti-elitism and the constitution - some reflections on populist constitutionalism Lucia Corso
• 3. Constitutional populism in South Africa Theunis Roux
• 4. Subaltern populism - Dutertismo and the war on constitutional democracy Richard Javad Heydarian
• Part II. Courts: 5. Populism, Constitutional democracy, and high courts - lessons from the Venezuelan Case Raul A. Sanchez Urribarri
• 6. When Bolsonaro and the judges go shopping - how Brazil's legal elites opened the door for Bolsonaro's bad populism Alexandre Fleck Soares Brandao
• 7. Disarming the guardians - the transformation of the Hungarian Constitutional Court after 2010 Eszter Bodnar
• Part III. Anti-Constitutionalism After Post-Communism: 8. Conservative populism in defiance of anti-totalitarian constitutional democracy Paul Blokker
• 9. Constitutional populism and the rule of law in Poland Michal Stambulski
• 10. Populism or authoritarianism? A plaidoyer against illiberal or authoritarian constitutionalism Gabor Halmai
• Part IV. EU Responses: 11. Populism and the crisis of constitutional pluralism Julian Scholtes
• 12. Populist constitutional grammar - between manipulative borrowing and bad (judicial) masters Oreste Pollicino
• Constitutional populism versus EU law: a much more complex story than you imagined Dimitry Vladimirovich Kochenov and Barbara Grabowska-Moroz
• V. Concluding Reflections: 14. Sources of constitutional populism - democracy, identity, and economic exclusion Adam Czarnota
• 15. Institutional populism, courts and the European Union Wojciech Sadurski.