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Kuo, Ming-Sung (2019) Against instantaneous democracy. International Journal of Constitutional Law, 17 (2). pp. 554-575. doi:10.1093/icon/moz029 ISSN 1474-2659.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/icon/moz029
Abstract
In this article, I aim to shed new light on the state of populism by looking beyond the substance of recent populist movements to examine their form. I argue that new populism, which is characterized by instantaneousness and simultaneity made possible by social media and other communications technologies, betrays a pathology of instantaneous democracy in its pursuit of unmediated politics at the expense of democratic representation and deliberation. To show how new populism poses a fundamental challenge to constitutional democracy, I first bring the unnoticed double structure of articulated politics at the heart of constitutional democracy to the fore: the structural articulation of distinct stages of decisionmaking in the multistage process of constitutional governance and that of formal constitutionalized powers and unformed public opinions. As the double structural articulation assumes a temporal gap, first, between each stage of formal decisionmaking, and, second, between opinion-formation and policymaking, I then discuss how this assumed temporal gap is being virtually obliterated amidst the wave of new populism, shaking the structure of articulated politics to its foundations. In response, I suggest that democratic learning, aided by tactics of judicial deceleration before the figuring out of a grand strategy, is critical in combating new populism.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Law | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | International Journal of Constitutional Law | ||||||||
Publisher: | Oxford University Press | ||||||||
ISSN: | 1474-2659 | ||||||||
Official Date: | April 2019 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 17 | ||||||||
Number: | 2 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 554-575 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1093/icon/moz029 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced version of an article accepted for publication in International Journal of Constitutional Law following peer review. The version of record Ming-Sung Kuo, Against instantaneous democracy, International Journal of Constitutional Law, Volume 17, Issue 2, April 2019, Pages 554–575 is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1093/icon/moz029 | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Copyright Holders: | © The Author(s) 2019. Oxford University Press and New York University School of Law. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oup.com | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 17 May 2018 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 29 August 2019 | ||||||||
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