nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20200909-124909-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 200909s2020||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20200909-124909-0 doi eng 342 23 Constitutional Dullness What We Can Learn from the Italian Constitutional Referendum Verfassungsblog 2020-09-09 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier Should the number of Italy’s Members of Parliament (MPs) be reduced from 945 to 600? Italian citizens will decide on that question in a constitutional referendum that will take place in less than two weeks. While other referendums in Italian history have been vectors of remarkable civic mobilisation, this one fails to capture the constitutional imagination of Italian citizens. What could – and should – be a radical public debate about Italy’s political system and the current order, in fact revolves around pettiness and trivial constitutional engineering. funded by the government CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Constitutional Law Constitutional referendum parliament Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/constitutional-dullness/ raw object