01751nam a22001577a 4500999001900000008004100019100003000060245010500090260003100195300003200226520117700258773003101435906001301466942000701479952010701486  c524750d524750240116b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aSchmidtke, Oliver 948067  aThe ‘will of the people’: The populist challenge to democracy in the name of popular sovereignty  aSocial and Legal Studies    a32(6), Dec, 2023: p.911-929  aThis article analyses how right-wing populist actors claim to represent the “voice of the people” and express “popular sovereignty” as a mode of challenging the traditional constitutional foundation of liberal democracy. This hypothesis is illustrated by an investigation into the political discourse of the Alternative for Germany considering how this populist actor has developed a political strategy claiming to speak for the “people” in an authentic and immediate fashion. The analysis of this actor's political mobilization shows how the championed direct democratic representation is couched in a sovereigntist discourse that relies on divisive identity markers rather than genuine democratic participation. Drawing on Carl Schmitt's concept of the political, the article interprets right-wing populism as invoking a permanent “state of exception” that employs an emotionally charged friend–enemy distinction whose logic of representing the people has the potential of triggering radical political change as well as undermining the integrity of rule-based democracy. – Reproduced 

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