Eccezione emergenza democrazia

The paper aims to analyse the concepts of state of exception (in German: Ausnahmezustand) and emergency. This because both concepts remain quite useful to understand which the condi-tion of contemporary democracies has become. Many studies argue that in these last decades the Neoliberalism had contribute to the transformation of the State based on the rule of law, as it was provided by the Constitutions approved after the Second World War. The transformation seems clear, specially thinking to the decrease of Welfare State’s guarantees. The political science uses frequently the word «Postdemocracy» to define the current condition of democratic legal systems, which seem standing in an enduring state of emergency, due to financial crises, pan-demic and, right now, wars. For these reasons, the connection between democracy, state of ex-ception and emergency makes sense to be analysed, starting from the theory developed by Carl Schmitt.