Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation › Academic
Description
The dominant literature focuses on a comparative-constitutional analysis of 'populism in power.' These analyses revolve around the question of how populism affects liberal institutional design in terms of the constitutional judiciary, the regime for selecting and disciplining judges, attitudes toward the supremacy of European law or reproductive and minority rights. This literature indicates that populism does not respect the separation of powers and seeks to concentrate and centralize power. This institutional backsliding is combined with symbolic policies – directed at transforming collective memory, education, and culture – to build a 'new, real' community based on the rhetoric of people power and a ‘return to the heartland.’
Period
23 Jun 2023
Event title
Constitutionalism and Political Economy: New Trajectories and Opportunities for Socio-Legal Scholarship