parliamentary government
noun
: a system of government having the real executive power vested in a cabinet composed of members of the legislature who are individually and collectively responsible to the legislature
has a democratically elected parliamentary government
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Eventually an Israeli 9/11-style commission is almost sure to assign blame—and, in the normal course of parliamentary governments, the Prime Minister and Defense Minister would be expected to resign.
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Dan Raviv, TIME, 1 June 2024
Allegations linking senior officials in Moldova’s pro-EU parliamentary government to money laundering are rife.
—Mieczyslaw P. Boduszynski, Foreign Affairs, 27 Nov. 2017
Meanwhile, Israel’s parliamentary government somehow couldn’t rid itself of the spectacularly corrupt Bibi Netanyahu, whose far-right coalition government is its own political, judicial, and humanitarian catastrophe.
—Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 5 Jan. 2023
In The New York Times, Michelle Goldberg has congratulated the British and our system of parliamentary government on the expeditious way an unworthy head of government can be removed, something Americans can only dream of.
—Geoffrey Wheatcroft, The New Republic, 9 Aug. 2022
To protect the new German democracy from the political divisions that had plagued parliamentary government during the Weimar period, an electoral law was introduced that aimed to prevent the proliferation of small extremist parties.
—Sylvia Taschka, The Conversation, 12 Jan. 2021
The key document comes from February 1953, five months before British and U.S. spies helped overthrow the parliamentary government led by Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh.
—NBC News, 5 June 2020
In a hyperpolarized system such as ours (as opposed to a European parliamentary government), what seem to be inevitable political coalitions are just as often post hoc frameworks grafted on top of marriages of convenience.
—Thomas Chatterton Williams, Harper's magazine, 20 Jan. 2020
Britain’s sea power, imperialism, parliamentary government, and majority-Protestant religion set it apart from its European neighbors — and not just because of its geographical isolation.
—Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 12 Sep. 2019
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Dan Raviv, TIME, 1 June 2024
Allegations linking senior officials in Moldova’s pro-EU parliamentary government to money laundering are rife.
—Mieczyslaw P. Boduszynski, Foreign Affairs, 27 Nov. 2017
Meanwhile, Israel’s parliamentary government somehow couldn’t rid itself of the spectacularly corrupt Bibi Netanyahu, whose far-right coalition government is its own political, judicial, and humanitarian catastrophe.
—Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 5 Jan. 2023
In The New York Times, Michelle Goldberg has congratulated the British and our system of parliamentary government on the expeditious way an unworthy head of government can be removed, something Americans can only dream of.
—Geoffrey Wheatcroft, The New Republic, 9 Aug. 2022
To protect the new German democracy from the political divisions that had plagued parliamentary government during the Weimar period, an electoral law was introduced that aimed to prevent the proliferation of small extremist parties.
—Sylvia Taschka, The Conversation, 12 Jan. 2021
The key document comes from February 1953, five months before British and U.S. spies helped overthrow the parliamentary government led by Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh.
—NBC News, 5 June 2020
In a hyperpolarized system such as ours (as opposed to a European parliamentary government), what seem to be inevitable political coalitions are just as often post hoc frameworks grafted on top of marriages of convenience.
—Thomas Chatterton Williams, Harper's magazine, 20 Jan. 2020
Britain’s sea power, imperialism, parliamentary government, and majority-Protestant religion set it apart from its European neighbors — and not just because of its geographical isolation.
—Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 12 Sep. 2019
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