Brexit: public square versus political market

“I’d rather be a poor master of my own fate than a rich servant of someone else’s.” Michael Caine “My policy on cake is pro having it and pro eating it.” Boris Johnson Introduction The rise of populism has raised the rather important issue of the relationship between the deliberative and the representative democracy. Alternatively, and more specifically, between demagogy and plebiscitary support. The topic as old as political thought, starting