title: THE QUESTION OF PARLIAMENTARY DEMOCRACY
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metadata.value: MENSCH, JAMES
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metadata.value: 2024-06-27T19:23:41Z
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metadata.value: 2024-06-27T19:23:41Z
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metadata.value: 2024-03
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metadata.value: MENSCH J. THE QUESTION OF PARLIAMENTARY DEMOCRACY. Horizon. Studies in Phenomenology, 2024, vol. 13 issue 1, pp. 263–279.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/2226-5260-2024-13-1-263-279
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/45634
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metadata.value: That Americans face a crisis in representative democracy is a matter of common knowledge. It is daily
  demonstrated by the paralysis of Congress to pass important legislation. Carl Schmitt, writing during
  a period of similar paralysis in the Weimar Republic, argued that the crisis is inherent in the very
  notion of parliamentary or representative democracy. While the parliamentary principle emphasizes
  contending parties and reasoned debates, the democratic principle is one of unification, one where the
  outvoted minority submits to the majority. Doing so, the minority “know that they have mistaken the
  content of the general will,” which is, inherently, unitary. This leads to the fact that democracy can,
  following its principles, suspend itself. Thus, the members of the Reichstag who passed the Enabling
  Act on March 23, 1933 could say that this Act suspending parliament expressed the general will. Rule
  by decree rather than through parliament was, they could claim, the choice of the popular will. After
  examining Schmitt’s position, this article considers Arendt’s response, which involves a unique definition
  of political thinking. In her view, this involves the politics of public space and of public identities
  established by public actions. As such, it involves negotiation, compromise, and, most importantly, promises made and kept. The paper concludes by considering what it would take to overcome the current
  crisis in representative democracy.
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metadata.value: The research for this article was supported by a grant from the Faculty of Humanities, Charles University.
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metadata.value: en
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Horizon. Studies in Phenomenology;Volume 13; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: democratic theory
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: general will
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: liberalism
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: legitimacy
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: deliberation
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: promising
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: the political
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Schmitt
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Arendt
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metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: THE QUESTION OF PARLIAMENTARY DEMOCRACY
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metadata.value: Article
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