nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20190211-225028-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 181211s2018||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20190211-225028-0 doi eng 342 23 Choudhry, Sujit Author aut Constitutional Resilience to Populism: Four Theses Choudhry, Sujit Verfassungsblog 2018-12-11 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier Let us make a plea for modesty. Constitutional democrats need to be clear-eyed and realistic about what good constitutional design can do. We need to steer a middle course between constitutional idealism and nihilism. Constitutional idealists argue that thoughtful and intelligent constitutional design can largely eliminate the risk posed by populism; constitutional nihilists respond by arguing that there is little, if anything, that constitutional design can do in the face of the populist challenge that secures victory at the ballot box and captures the state from within. funded by the government CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Constitutionalism Majoritarianism Populism Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/constitutional-resilience-to-populism-four-theses/ raw object