1 World Congress of Constitutional Law OSLO 2014 IACL/AIDC n°16 Direct democracy workshop The abrogative referendum in the Italian Constitution: threat or opportunity? Dr. Giulia Aravantinou Leonidi Senior Research Fellow in Comparative Constitutional Law Department of Political Science University of Rome La Sapienza giulia.aravantinouleonidi@uniroma1.it Department of Political Science University of Rome La Sapienza Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Rome-Italy