Reflexiones constitucionales sobre el populismo democrático

Abstract

As an emerging political movement populism has been mainly studied from a sociological and political point of view, but it can be also analyzed through Constitutional law. In fact, populism reflects the exhaustion of some of the main principles of western Constitutional Law: blind faith in electoral polls, overuse of representative democracy (versus direct democracy), falsification of form of government due both to lobby system and bad habits in political parties or the loss of power of traditional mass media have all introduce a Constitutional crisis that have favored the growth of populisms.