Pluralism and Disagreement
Populism and Illiberalism
Jiří Baroš
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Populism and Illiberalism
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§ Populist Constitutionalism
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§ Populism
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§ Illiberalism

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§ Populist Constitutionalism
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§ Populism
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§ Illiberalism

Populist Constitutionalism
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§ Populism and Constitutionalism
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§ Four Features of Populist Constitutionalism

Populism and Constitutionalism
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§ Hostility to Constitutionalism
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§ Engagement with Constitutionalism

Four Featurs of PC
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§ The Popular Will
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§ Majoritarianism
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§ Legal Resentment
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§ Constitutional Instrumentalism

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§ Populist Constitutionalism
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§ Populism
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§ Illiberalism

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§ Populist Constitutionalism
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§ Populism
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§ Illiberalism

Populism
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§ Democratic Diarchy
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§ Genealogy
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§ Architecture

Democratic Diarchy
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§ „will and opinion are the two powers of the democratic sovereign. They are different ans should
remain distinct, although in need of constant communication.“
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§ Representative Democracy v. Epistemic Democracy (deliberation of nonelected bodies) and Populism
(opinion of the part of the people merge with the will of the state)

Genealogy
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§ demagoguery in ancient direct democracy
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§ Roman Tradition: populus and plebs
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§ America v. Europe
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§ Social Movements and Populism

Architecture
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§ political style + seeks state power
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§ Against Pluralism: Unification of the masses
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§ Caesarist Leader: Concentration of power
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§ Populism is Parasitical on Representative Democracy
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§ Populist Constitutionalism
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§ Populism
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§ Illiberalism

Populism and Plebiscitarianism
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§ Populist Constitutionalism
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§ Populism
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§ Illiberalism

Illiberalism
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§ What is Liberalism?
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§ Post-liberal Future

What is Liberalism?
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§ Liberty Tradition and the Question of Modernity
§ Liberal Voluntarism
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§ The War Against Nature
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§ Individual and the State

Post-liberal Future
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§ Two Forms of Denouement: (a) The Perpetuation of Liberalism; (b) Another Regime
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§ Three Steps: (a) The Acknowledgment of the Achievements of Liberalism; (b) The End of Ideology;
(c) The Advent of Postliberal Practice and the Birth of Theory