James Q. Wilson

Some people suggest that the problem is the separation of powers. If you had a parliamentary system, the struggle for power would not result in such complex peace treaties that empower so many different people to pursue so many contradictory aims.

American Politician

Donald Evans

The U.S. views Morocco as an important friend, and we applaud your political and economic reforms that culminated with the recent parliamentary elections that were widely reported to have been conducted in a fair and open manner.

American Public Servant

Andrea Leadsom

This is, after all, the country that gave the world the rule of law, parliamentary democracy, the right to own property, the English language, and the free market... we are a remarkable people, and we have so much more to give.

British Politician

Gina Miller

It was a privilege to play a leading role in helping to safeguard our parliamentary sovereignty, and as such I am, on any view, a person with a genuine and substantial interest in the matter of defending MPs' voices.

Guyanese Activist

Frank Dobson

My own view is that if you filled every member of the parliamentary Labour party with a truth drug and lashed them to a polygraph lie detector, very, very few of them would support foundation hospitals.

Francis Maude

It is simply the view, and a view I think shared by most members of the party, that it is very difficult to have a leader that does not command the support of the parliamentary party.

Jovenel Moise

This is not about abolishing parliamentary power. It's about rebalancing power.

Haitian Politician

Crispin Blunt

It is my view there is a gaping hole in parliamentary oversight.

John McDonnell

You can't change the world through the parliamentary system.

Sharad Pawar

Dialogue is the essence of parliamentary politics.

Indian Politician

Used when discussing activities specific to parliaments, like debates or legislation.

Political context

Refers to the official rules that govern how a parliament functions.

Procedural reference

It's formal and usually not used in casual conversations.

Not everyday language

Indicates a government type with a parliament that members are elected to.

Government structure

Underlines the difference from presidential systems where a separate executive is chosen.

Contrasts presidential

It involves people who are officially part of the parliament.

Member-based

It some ways relates or results from parliamentary elections.

Election involvement

Relates to the smaller groups within parliament appointed for specific tasks.

Committee specifics

 We invited the embassies and the government departments to participate in the open network, too, and to our surprise, they did. Files appeared on the network, including classified documents leaked from the parliamentary investigation commission, which highlights that the free exchange and discussion of vital information

Art That Lets You Talk...

 which seeks to strengthen parliamentary democracy and encourage greater public involvement in politics published, alongside their annual audit of political engagement, an additional section devoted entirely to politics and the media. Here are a couple of rather depressing observations

David Puttnam: What...

 major parties joined to suppress the uprisings, establishing the parliamentary Weimar Republic. One of the new government's first tasks was implementing the peace treaty imposed by the Allies. In addition to losing over a tenth of its territory and dismantling its army,

How did Hitler rise to...

 Time rebels are taking action at the ballot box too. In 2019, teenagers across Europe began lobbying their parents and grandparents to give them their votes in the European parliamentary elections of that year. The hashtag #givethekidsyourvote went viral on social media

How to be a good...

 existence in the United States of to really large political parties okay two really large political parties that's what we're accustomed to here that's not what happens all over the world of course in democracies we have parliamentary democracies like Germany

Why political...

 We have to do it much more rapidly. So the meeting in Glasgow rises in its importance. You and I, we've been to these meetings since way back in the beginning of the '90s with Rio and even before, some of them parliamentary meetings.

The US is back in the...

 So, asked in that way, I think it raises great things about parliamentary ideas, democracy, public space, being together, being individual. How do we create an idea which is both tolerant to individuality, and also to collectivity,

Playing with space and...

 and we look at people that participated in EU parliamentary elections, the median turnout in those elections is just 42 percent. Now let's go to New York, and let's see how many people voted in the last election for mayor.

A bold idea to replace...

 of London's war-damaged parliamentary chambers, "We shape our buildings, and afterward, they shape us." The good news is that we can change how we build and who we build for. Be that a health worker in rural Rwanda,

How architecture can...

 four months after its last parliamentary elections. But hang on, this talk is to be about the good news. So are these now the images of the past?

Parliamentary