# The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy

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- Book: [The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy](https://www.bookquiver.com/carl-schmitt/the-crisis-of-parliamentary-democracy) ([The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/carl-schmitt/the-crisis-of-parliamentary-democracy.md))
- Authors: [Carl Schmitt](https://www.bookquiver.com/carl-schmitt), [Ellen Kennedy](https://www.bookquiver.com/ellen-kennedy)
- Publisher: the_mit_press
- ISBN: 978-02-6269-126-0
- Pages: 184
- Published: 1988-06-22
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy offers a powerful criticism of the inconsistencies of representative democracy. Described both as " the Hobbes of our age" and as " the philosophical godfather of Nazism,"...