Leonardo Fiorespino holds a PhD in political philosophy from Università degli Studi di Roma “Tor Vergata”, where he worked under the supervision of Professor Alessandro Ferrara. His academic interests include political philosophy and ethics, with special interest in democratic theory, liberalism, republicanism, normative theory, populism, constitutionalism.

• PART I. DELIBERATIVE DEMOCRACY AND DEMOCRATIC PARTICIPATION.- Chapter 1. Jürgen Habermas and the communicative sovereignty of citizens.- Chapter 2. John Rawls and the constitutional identity of ‘the people'.- Chapter 3. The old kid in town: excursus on participatory democracy and a “participatory conception of deliberative democracy.- PART II. CONTEMPORARY REPUBLICANISM.- Chapter 4. Popular sovereignty as popular control: Philip Pettit’s republicanism.- Chapter 5. Richard Bellamy and the political constitution of the demos.- PART III. AGONISTIC DEMOCRACY.- Chapter 6. The people as hegemonic construction: Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe’s radical democracy.- Chapter 7. Dogmatization and pluralization: William Connolly’s sovereign people.- PART IV. POPULISM AND RADICAL DEMOCRATIC THEORIES: HOW THIN IS THE RED LINE?.- Chapter 8. Populism in contemporary political philosophy.- Chapter 9. Where the line lies, and how thin is it.

Leonardo Fiorespino holds a PhD in political philosophy from Università degli Studi di Roma “Tor Vergata”, where he worked under the supervision of Professor Alessandro Ferrara. His academic interests include political philosophy and ethics, with special interest in democratic theory, liberalism, republicanism, normative theory, populism, constitutionalism.

• PART I. DELIBERATIVE DEMOCRACY AND DEMOCRATIC PARTICIPATION.- Chapter 1. Jürgen Habermas and the communicative sovereignty of citizens.- Chapter 2. John Rawls and the constitutional identity of ‘the people'.- Chapter 3. The old kid in town: excursus on participatory democracy and a “participatory conception of deliberative democracy.- PART II. CONTEMPORARY REPUBLICANISM.- Chapter 4. Popular sovereignty as popular control: Philip Pettit’s republicanism.- Chapter 5. Richard Bellamy and the political constitution of the demos.- PART III. AGONISTIC DEMOCRACY.- Chapter 6. The people as hegemonic construction: Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe’s radical democracy.- Chapter 7. Dogmatization and pluralization: William Connolly’s sovereign people.- PART IV. POPULISM AND RADICAL DEMOCRATIC THEORIES: HOW THIN IS THE RED LINE?.- Chapter 8. Populism in contemporary political philosophy.- Chapter 9. Where the line lies, and how thin is it.

Leonardo Fiorespino holds a PhD in political philosophy from Università degli Studi di Roma “Tor Vergata”, where he worked under the supervision of Professor Alessandro Ferrara. His academic interests include political philosophy and ethics, with special interest in democratic theory, liberalism, republicanism, normative theory, populism, constitutionalism.

• PART I. DELIBERATIVE DEMOCRACY AND DEMOCRATIC PARTICIPATION.- Chapter 1. Jürgen Habermas and the communicative sovereignty of citizens.- Chapter 2. John Rawls and the constitutional identity of ‘the people'.- Chapter 3. The old kid in town: excursus on participatory democracy and a “participatory conception of deliberative democracy.- PART II. CONTEMPORARY REPUBLICANISM.- Chapter 4. Popular sovereignty as popular control: Philip Pettit’s republicanism.- Chapter 5. Richard Bellamy and the political constitution of the demos.- PART III. AGONISTIC DEMOCRACY.- Chapter 6. The people as hegemonic construction: Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe’s radical democracy.- Chapter 7. Dogmatization and pluralization: William Connolly’s sovereign people.- PART IV. POPULISM AND RADICAL DEMOCRATIC THEORIES: HOW THIN IS THE RED LINE?.- Chapter 8. Populism in contemporary political philosophy.- Chapter 9. Where the line lies, and how thin is it.