Blog of the International Journal of Constitutional Law

Tag: plebiscitary democracy

  • Flirtations with the People: The Glimmer of the 1991 Colombian Constitution

    —Jorge González Jácome, Associate Professor of Law at Universidad de los Andes [Editor’s Note: This is one of our ICONnect columns. For more information on our 2025 columnists, see here.] The government of Colombia’s left-wing president, Gustavo Petro, has recently put forward the idea of using a citizen participation mechanism to revive one of his social…

  • Populism and the Courts

    —Andrew Arato, The New School [Editor’s Note: This post is part of the joint I-CONnect/Verfassungsblog mini-symposium on populism and constitutional courts. An introduction to the symposium can be found here.] The antagonism of populist governments to apex courts is a matter of historical record, starting with Peronism, the first time that an openly populist movement…