Giuseppe Martinico (Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa) has posted Sovereignty and Illiberalism on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
In this contribution I shall develop the nexus between illiberalism and sovereignty, highlighting, in particular, the role played by sovereignism in the constitutional counter-narrative proposed by the supporters of illiberalism. Indeed, as will be pointed out, the champions of illiberalism approach constitutions by borrowing and manipulating categories of constitutional theory and instruments of constitutional law. In doing so, they do not seek to propose an alternative constitutional theory, but rather to make the language of constitutions instrumental, transforming them from an instrument of control and form of power into an instrument of government. In this chapter I shall see how sovereignty is manipulated in the illiberal constitutional counter-narrative. Before tackling the concept of sovereignism, however, I shall devote the first part of this contribution to the concept of illiberalism, attempting to reconstruct the meaning of this ambiguous concept.