Carl Schmitt and the contradictions of liberal democracy

Bibliographic Data

ID6256804
AuthorsR Bellamy (0000-0002-9823-0626, University of East Anglia), Peter Baehr (0000-0001-7921-7162, Memorial University of Newfoundland)
Year1993
Volume23
Issue2
Pages163-185
Publication date1993-02-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEuropean Journal of Political Research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0304-4130 • E-ISSN: 1475-6765
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1475-6765.1993.tb00354.x
OpenAlexW3123342375
LanguageEN
Citations received8
References cited17

This article examines the contradictions Schmitt holds to exist between liberalism and democracy. The authors first examine Schmitt's descriptions of liberalism and democracy. They then proceed to his analysis of the political domain, which provides the basis of his criticism of liberal democracy. Following an evaluation of his argument, they propose a democratic conception of liberalism which both draws on Schmitt's account of the political while defending the viability of the union of liberalism and democracy

Argument (complex analysis · Criticism · Democracy · Epistemology · Law and economics · Liberal democracy · Liberalism · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy · Law · Medicine · Philosophy · Political Theology and Sovereignty · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought

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