parliamentary democracy
collocation in Englishmeaningsofparliamentaryanddemocracy
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parliamentary
adjective
uk/ˌpɑː.lɪˈmen.tər.i/us/ˌpɑːr.ləˈmen.t̬ɚ.i/
of or relating to ...
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democracy
noun
uk/dɪˈmɒk.rə.si/us/dɪˈmɑː.krə.si/
the belief in freedom and equality between people, or a system of government based on this belief, in which power is either held by elected representatives or directly by the ...
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(Definition ofparliamentaryanddemocracyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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In domestic politics, he feared nothing so much as the break-down ofparliamentarydemocracyand civil war.
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But it also includes the scope for more innovative response as questions arose about the capacity ofparliamentarydemocracyto deal with modern challenges.
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Their expected life is about twenty-four years, while the expected life of aparliamentarydemocracyis seventy-four years.
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A model of policy implementation in aparliamentarydemocracyas delegation between the prime minister and her cabinet ministers is introduced.
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However, the other camp claims that political parties are the cornerstones ofparliamentarydemocracy.
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Intellectuals expected an immediate political transformation, including a return toparliamentarydemocracy.
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This environment is consistent with the responsible party model ofparliamentarydemocracy.
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These are:parliamentarydemocracy, successive voting procedure, and bicameralism.
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As it happens, no case of insider-dominant, decompressive transition occurred in a country with a prior record ofparliamentarydemocracy.
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The challenges ofparliamentarydemocracyare clearly stated.
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Assessing and analysing variation in turnout is therefore an important question for the study ofparliamentarydemocracy.
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Many of the new democracies since the mid-1970s are semi-presidential regimes that combine a popularly elected president with the traditional features ofparliamentarydemocracy.
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Scholars argue that the legitimacy ofparliamentarydemocracydepends on how well the legislative assembly corresponds to several normative criteria regarding representation.
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One example of this is the 'common sense attitude' that socialism is finished and that human civilisation ends with the combination of free market capitalism and liberalparliamentarydemocracy.
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Parliamentarydemocracyalso encouraged the degeneration of national morals in that it spawned corrupt bargains for votes.
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Moreover, the building did not deal with the spatial nature of aparliamentarydemocracyor with the planning flaws that, according to these critics, could be found in the brief.
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