Populist Understandings of the Law: A Conservative Backlash?

<span class="abs_content">The main argument is that the contemporary manifestations of right-wing populism in Europe ought to be understood, at least in part, as reactions to a distinctive form of postwar European society, which I will call here embedded constitutional democracy. The...

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Autor principal:	Paul Blokker
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Materias:	anti-liberalism, conservatism, legal fundamentalism, populism, rule of law Political science (General) JA1-92
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:2a73cc784d5b4ddda9b76ed0345733a92021-11-21T15:11:42ZPopulist Understandings of the Law: A Conservative Backlash?1972-76232035-660910.1285/i20356609v13i3p1433https://doaj.org/article/2a73cc784d5b4ddda9b76ed0345733a92020-11-01T00:00:00Zhttp://siba-ese.unisalento.it/index.php/paco/article/view/23056https://doaj.org/toc/1972-7623https://doaj.org/toc/2035-6609<span class="abs_content">The main argument is that the contemporary manifestations of right-wing populism in Europe ought to be understood, at least in part, as reactions to a distinctive form of postwar European society, which I will call here embedded constitutional democracy. The argument is that the populist reaction to embedded constitutional democracy generally takes a conservative form. This conservatism is expressed in rather different ways (ranging from ethnoreligious views to 'illiberal liberal' ones), but at the same time populism displays a shared core of criticisms on liberalism, and in particular regarding the internationalized or global version of liberalism. In the article, I will start with a brief analysis of the emergence of postwar society in the form of embedded constitutional democracy, used as a backcloth for the subsequent discussion of critical views of liberal understandings of the law in conservative populist thinking. I will, then, focus on populists' critical views of liberalism and 'globalism', analyzed in the form of contemporary articulations of (conservative) populism in both East-Central Europe (Hungary and Poland), and Western Europe (France, Italy, the Netherlands). In order to identify ideological affinities and critical positions, I discuss four themes: abstractness and inauthenticity, identity threat, domination, and legal fundamentalism.</span><br />Paul BlokkerCoordinamento SIBAarticleanti-liberalism, conservatism, legal fundamentalism, populism, rule of lawPolitical science (General)JA1-92ENPartecipazione e Conflitto, Vol 13, Iss 3, Pp 1433-1452 (2020)
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description	<span class="abs_content">The main argument is that the contemporary manifestations of right-wing populism in Europe ought to be understood, at least in part, as reactions to a distinctive form of postwar European society, which I will call here embedded constitutional democracy. The argument is that the populist reaction to embedded constitutional democracy generally takes a conservative form. This conservatism is expressed in rather different ways (ranging from ethnoreligious views to 'illiberal liberal' ones), but at the same time populism displays a shared core of criticisms on liberalism, and in particular regarding the internationalized or global version of liberalism. In the article, I will start with a brief analysis of the emergence of postwar society in the form of embedded constitutional democracy, used as a backcloth for the subsequent discussion of critical views of liberal understandings of the law in conservative populist thinking. I will, then, focus on populists' critical views of liberalism and 'globalism', analyzed in the form of contemporary articulations of (conservative) populism in both East-Central Europe (Hungary and Poland), and Western Europe (France, Italy, the Netherlands). In order to identify ideological affinities and critical positions, I discuss four themes: abstractness and inauthenticity, identity threat, domination, and legal fundamentalism.</span><br />
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Populist Understandings of the Law: A Conservative Backlash?

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