@article{2018:buchstein:funktionsb,
title = {Funktionsbedingungen des Parlamentarismus. Otto Kirchheimers Überlegungen zum Parlamentarismus während seines Pariser und New Yorker Exils (1933 bis 1943)},
year = {2018},
note = {To this day, the young Otto Kirchheimer is regarded as a strong
critical voice of the Weimar Republic’s parliamentary system. The
article discusses Kirchheimer’s less known writings on
parliamentarism during his years of exile in Paris and New York
between 1933 and 1945. Kirchheimer on the one hand avows himself as an
ardent supporter of modern parliamentarism. He sees it as a means of
political integration in the same way his former Berlin mentor Rudolf
Smend did. On the other hand, he emphasises the role precarious
social, institutional and cultural preconditions have on parliamentary
regimes’ effectiveness. Kirchheimer opted for strengthening the role
of the public sphere, especially when considering that the importance
of the executive branches in modern democracies is continuously
growing.},
journal = {ZParl Zeitschrift für Parlamentsfragen},
pages = {718--729},
author = {Buchstein, Hubertus},
volume = {49},
number = {4}
}