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Introduction and Acknowledgements
Giuseppe Martinico
Book:

Filtering Populist Claims to Fight Populism

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18 November 2021

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25 November 2021, pp 1-9
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This book is the outcome of two projects that I have coordinated over the last four years. The first one is a Jean Monnet project called European Public Law-ius (Eur.Publ.ius), which was funded by the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency of the European Union. The project, which ended in 2019, was devoted to the current challenges faced by the European Union, and of course among them there is the rise of authoritarian populisms in Hungary and Poland with the well-known rule of law crisis.

5 - The Assault on Representative Democracy as the Other Side of the Politics of Immediacy
Giuseppe Martinico
Book:

Filtering Populist Claims to Fight Populism

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18 November 2021

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25 November 2021, pp 124-146
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‘We will open up parliament like a can of tuna fish’.1 This is what Grillo said before the general election of 2013, when the Five Star Movement obtained its first representatives in the parliament. In the rhetoric of the movement, direct democracy is frequently understood as inevitably enriched by the use of new technology and in the long run, according to the Five Star Movement, this will reduce the centrality of parliaments.

‘I missed a penalty’: the constitutional referendum and Matteo Renzi’s mistakes
Davide Gianluca Bianchi
Journal:

Modern Italy / Volume 22 / Issue 3 / August 2017

Published online by Cambridge University Press:

24 July 2017, pp. 315-329

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August 2017
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This paper provides an empirical analysis of the result of the referendum on constitutional reform held in Italy on 4 December 2016. The votes against (59.1%) won by a significant margin, with an unexpectedly high turnout at the polls and more than 33 million citizens voting. Using as a point of departure the polls carried out prior to and following the referendum, in which Italians said they were essentially in favour of the reform proposed by the prime minister, the essay focuses on the mistakes made by Matteo Renzi that discouraged Italians from voting Yes. These touch on all aspects of the referendum: 1) the parliamentary process, 2) its combination with electoral law, 3) institutional communication, and 4) his political analysis and strategic approach. The final section evaluates the effects of the referendum result on the Italian political system, emphasising the setback to reformism and the strengthening of the anti-system parties that support leaving the Euro (in particular the Movimento 5 Stelle).