Judicial Populism: The Rule of the People against the Rule of Law

Authors

  • Paul Blokker University of Bologna
  • Oscar Mazzoleni Université de Lausanne

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1285/i20356609v13i3p1411

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Author Biographies

Paul Blokker, University of Bologna

Paul Blokker is associate professor in political sociology at the Department of Sociology and Business Law, University of Bologna, Italy, and research coordinator at the Institute of Sociological Studies, Charles University Prague, Czechia. His research focusses on the sociology of constitutions, constitutional politics, democratic participation, and populism. Recent publications: Sociologia dei diritti umani, with Laura Guercio, Mondadori, 2020; ‘Building democracy by legal means? The contestation of human rights and constitutionalism in East-Central Europe’, in: Journal of Modern European History, 2020; ‘Varieties of Populist Constitutionalism: The Transnational Dimension’, German Law Journal 20/3, 2019; Sociological Constitutionalism, edited with Chris Thornhill, Cambridge University Press, 2017. He is co-editor of the journal European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology as well as of the journal and book series Social Imaginaries.

Oscar Mazzoleni, Université de Lausanne

Oscar Mazzoleni is a professor in political science at the University of Lausanne. His research interests are devoted to political parties, populism and regionalism. His works have been published in several peer-reviewed journals as Comparative European Politics, European Politics and Society, Government and Opposition, Party Politics, Political Studies, Revue française de science politique, Swiss Political Science Review, Contemporary Italian Politics, Nationalism and Ethnic politics and Populism amongst others. He’s co-editor of Political Populism. A Handbook (Nomos/Bloombury 2017, with R. Heinisch and C. Holz-Bacha), Understanding Populist Party Organisation. The Radical Right in Western Europe (Palgrave 2016, with R. Heinisch), and The People and the Nation. Populism and Ethno-Territorial Politics in Europe (Routledge 2019, with R. Heinisch and E. Massetti).

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Paper published in this Special Issue:

Mazzoleni O. and G. Voerman (2020), “In the Name of Sovereignty. Right-Wing Populism and the Power of the Judiciary in Western Europe”, Partecipazione e conflitto, 13(3): 1417-1432.

Blokker P. (2020), “Populist Understandings of the Law: A Conservative Backlash?”, Partecipazione e conflitto, 13(3): 1433.1452.

de la Torre C. and F. Burbano de Lara (2020), “Populism, Constitution Making, and the Rule of Law in Latin America”, Partecipazione e conflitto, 13(3): 1453-1468.

Anastasìa S. and M. Anselmi (2020), “Populist Punitiveness in the Italian Populistic Yellow-Green Government”, Partecipazione e conflitto, 13(3): 1469-1486.

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Published

15-11-2020

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Vol. 13, No. 3 (2020). Special Issue on: “Squatting and Urban Commons” & “Judicial Populism”

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