Definition of Parliamentary democracy

1. Noun. A democracy having a parliament.

Generic synonyms: Commonwealth, Democracy, Republic

Lexicographical Neighbors of Parliamentary Democracy

parleys
parleyvoo
parleyvooed
parleyvooing
parleyvoos
parlez vous
parlez voused
parlez vouses
parlez vousing
parliament
parliamental
parliamentarian
parliamentarily
parliamentary
parliamentary agent
parliamentary democracy (current term)
parliamentary law
parliamentary monarchy
parliamentary procedure
parliamentlike
parliaments
parlies
parling
parlor
parlor-game
parlor-games
parlor car
parlor game
parlor grand
parlor grand piano

Literary usage of Parliamentary democracy

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Mental Culture in Burmese Crisis Politics: Aung San Suu Kyi and the National by Gustaaf Houtman (1999)
"Here it is quite clearly stated that democracy cannot be faulted as a political system at all for, as an antidote to feudalism, 'parliamentary democracy ..."

2. Trade Unions and Democracy: Cosatu Workers' Political Attitudes in South Africa by Sakhela Buhlungu (2006)
"... parliamentary democracy and the 2004 elections Janet Cherry and Roger Southall Perhaps the most fundamental of all the issues which were addressed in ..."

3. The New Detente: Rethinking East-West Relations by Mary Kaldor, Gerard Holden, Richard A. Falk (1989)
"The state's relations with private capital are opaque. They are not immediately obvious in the institutions of parliamentary democracy. ..."

4. Capital (1888)
"They all agreed that defections militated against parliamentary democracy and, therefore, should be curbed. However, it was soon discovered that curbing ..."

5. The Forces of Freedom in Spain, 1974-1979: A Personal Account by Samuel D. Eaton (1981)
"The King fully recognized that in a constitutional, parliamentary democracy he should, over time, be less directly involved in government; ..."

6. Russia's 1996 Presidential Election: The End of Polarized Politics by Michael McFaul (1997)
"Juan Linz, "Presidential or parliamentary democracy: Does It Make a Difference?" and Arend Lijphart, "Presidentialism and Majoritarian Democracy," in Juan ..."

7. Power, Competition, and the State by Keith Middlemas (1986)
"In confirming the formal pattern of parliamentary democracy and of the state as it had grown up after the First World War, they permitted large informal ..."

8. The Passing of the Old Order in Europe by Gregory Zilboorg (1920)
"Again, the French Revolution was only a transition from feudal autocracy as represented by the king, to a parliamentary democracy, and was therefore only a ..."

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