Schmitt’s Spectre and the Crisis of Parliamentarism

This study focuses on the Carl Schmitt’s ideas regarding “the crisis of parliamentarism”, which managed to go beyond nearly a century from certain respects; and also discusses the Schmitt’s capacity of expression about contemporary politics in the context of parliamentarism. Generally, this study analyzes Scmitt’s ideas that the parliamentarism is a hollow liberal system, and the parliament’s main principles of “discussion” and “openness” remain dysfunctional due to the fact that the political decisions could not be adopted in the parliament, and also the parliament, as a composite structure embedded superficially with elements such as democracy, liberalism, rationalism and pluralism, is converted into a show case where perpetual discussions are made; and discusses Schmitt’s solution proposal. In this context, it is acknowledged that the Schmitt’s ideas regarding the parliamentarism and the critiques against them constitute an important and fruitful discussion for the development of contemporary democratic politics