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The introduction, prefaces, and structured chapters examine parliamentary principles such as openness, balanced powers, and law, then contrast these with Marxist dictatorship and irrational theories justifying direct force. An appendix addresses the ideology of parliamentarism.","Create PDF with PDF4U. If you wish to remove this line, please click here to purchase the full version  \nPage i  \n The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy   \nCreate PDF with PDF4U. If you wish to remove this line, please click here to purchase the full version  \nPage ii  \nStudies in Contemporary German Social Thought  \nThomas McCarthy, General Editor Theodor W. Adorno, Against Epistemology: A Metacritique Theodor W. Adorno, Prisms  \nKarl-Otto Apel, Understanding and Explanation: A Transcendental-Pragmatic Perspective Richard J. 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Mead: A Contemporary Re-examination of His Thought  \nReinhart Koselleck, Futures Past: On the Semantics of Historical Time Claus Offe, Contradictions of the Welfare State  \nClaus Offe, Disorganized Capitalism: Contemporary Transformations of Work and Politics Helmut Peukert, Science, Action, and Fundamental Theology: Toward a Theology of  \nCommunicative Action  \nJoachim Ritter, Hegel and the French Revolution: Essays on the Philosophy ofRight  \nAlfred Schmidt, History and Structure: An Essay on Hegelian-Marxist and Structuralist  \nTheories of History  \nCarl Schmitt, The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy Carl Schmitt, Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty Michael Theunissen, The Other: Studies in the Social Ontology of Husserl, Heidegger,  Sartre, and Buber   \nCreate PDF with PDF4U. If you wish to remove this line, please click here to purchase the full version  \nPage iii  \nThe Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy  \nCarl Schmitt  \ntranslated by Ellen Kennedy  \nCreate PDF with PDF4U. If you wish to remove this line, please click here to purchase the full version  \nPage iv  \nSixth printing, 2000  \nFirst MIT Press paperback edition, 1988  \nThis translation ©1985 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  \nThis book was originally published as Die geistesgeschichtliche Lage des heutigen Parlamentarismus, ©1923, 1926 by Duncker & Humblot, Berlin. The review by Richard Thoma was originally published in the Archivfür Sozialwissenschaft und Sozialpolitik 53 ( 1925), 215–217.  \nAll rights reserved. No part ofthis book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means (including photocopying, recording, or information storage and  \nretrieval) without permission in writing from the publisher.  \nThis book was set in Baskerville by The MIT Press Computergraphics Department and was printed and bound in the United States ofAmerica.  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data  \nSchmitt, Carl, 1888-  \nThe crisis ofparliamentary democracy.  \n( Studies in contemporary German social thought)  \nTranslation of: Die geistesgeschichtliche Lage des heutigen Parlamentarismus.  \nBibliography: p.  \nIncludes index.  \n1. Legislative bodies. 2. Parliamentary practice.  \nI. Title. II. Series.  \nJF511 . S313 1985 328'.3 85-19908  \nISBN 0-262-19240-3 (hardcover)  \n 0-262-69126-4 (paperback)   \nCreate PDF with PDF4U. 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