Crisis of Parliamentarism

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In Carl Schmitt
Schmitt’s Crisis of Parliamentarism (1923) portrayed liberal parliamentary government as a sham: interest-based political parties feign protection of the national good while actually pursuing their own particularist agendas. Contemporary parliaments, Schmitt averred, were incapable of reconciling democracy, which presupposed political unity, with liberalism, a fundamentally individualist…
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