Crisis Of Parliamentary Democracy by Carl Schmitt
A trenchant critique of liberal parliamentary systems that argues the assumptions behind parliamentary debate—an informed, deliberative public and the supremacy of rational discussion—have been undermined by mass parties, interest-driven bargaining and plebiscitary mobilization; parliaments therefore become procedural machinery unable to resolve decisive political questions, producing instability and delegitimization and prompting a demand for a more decisive sovereign authority. The work contrasts liberal theory with the realities of modern party politics and develops a theory of decisionism that privileges political unity and decisive action over endless parliamentary deliberation.
- Published
- 1923
- Nationality
- German
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- Unknown
- Pages
- Unknown
- Original Language
- German
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- Alternate Titles
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- Die geistesgeschichtliche Lage des heutigen Parlamentarismus
- The Spiritual Situation of Contemporary Parliamentarism
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