Paul Blokker is associate Professor of Political Sociology at the University of Bologna. Cristina Fasone is currently Max Weber Post-doctoral Fellow in Law at the European University Institute, Florence (Italy) and Academic Coordinator of the Summer School in ‘Parliamentary Democracy in Europe’, LUISS Guido Carli School of Government, Rome (Italy).

The engagement of conservative, populist governments with constitutional reform and constitution-making is perceived as a significant threat to the rule of law and democracy within the European Union. In this webinar, Prof. Paul Blokker (Charles University/University of Bologna) discusses whether populism ought to be understood not only as a rejection of liberal constitutionalism, but also as a competing political force in the definition of constitutional democracy. While the populist critique of liberal constitutionalism provides significant insights into structural problems of liberal democracy, can populist constitutionalism live up to its own democratic promise?

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