Sentences with phrase «@nick122 in a parliamentary system»

Unlike in the USA however, winning an election in a Parliamentary system doesn't necessarily guarantee control.

In a parliamentary system, this meant that...

In a parliamentary system, this meant that their leader, now former Prime Minister Stephen Harper, had been at the helm, relatively uncontested by the more left - leaning parties.

In parliamentary systems, that compromise is often made by politicians after elections, when they form coalitions to choose a prime minister.

This means coalitions have to be formed within the major parties prior to elections, as opposed to after the fact in parliamentary system.

@Nick122 In a parliamentary system like the Norwegian one can essentially give a negative vote to a party by voting for a party that promises not to cooperate with the given party.

But in parliamentary systems, where party discipline is high and debate is relatively open, such methods are not particularly effective: voting is often strategic and reveals little in terms of ideology.

We need checks and balances in our parliamentary system.

It would be much clearer to voters if they could see that in our parliamentary system, first we elect a parliament, and then it is up to the new parliament to decide who shall form the government.

To my mind, it betrays arrogance, reeks of hypocrisy and has no place in a parliamentary system.

Bear in mind also that in parliamentary systems, there are more ways to remove the head of government (chancellor / prime minister) than just losing an election, including loss of support from their own party / coalition, or loss of confidence from the legislature.

In a parliamentary system, party affiliations are not locked.

Note, I am using American terms, but even in a parliamentary system, these roles still exist.

In a parliamentary system the party in power is the one with the most votes in parliament and that would always correspond to the party that won the most actual votes in the election, even if they didn't get the most seats.

AWS can be engineered by party hierarchies, which serves only to shoot more holes in the thin layer of trust and confidence remaining in the parliamentary system.

«Some MPs have a dual role in a parliamentary system - they're not just MPs for a particular constituency but also have national offices in which they ought to be concerned about the national interest,» he explained.

It can always be argued that, as undemocratic as it is, FPTP is «democratic enough» as it always delivers a majority of seats one way or another, which is the whole point in a parliamentary system.

Since prime ministers in parliamentary systems must always retain the confidence of the legislature, in cases where a prime minister suddenly leaves office there is little point in anyone without a reasonable prospect of gaining that legislative confidence attempting to assume the premiership.

It is questionable as to whether fixed terms exist, at least in parliamentary systems.

We have what is necessary in our Parliamentary system for the problems you identify to be solved - what we don't have is a political class willing to govern by them.

Republicans in general won a majority of the House seats, which in a parliamentary system would have given their choice control anyway.

In the parliamentary system, the executive is not really separated from the Legislature.

A minority government, or minority cabinet or minority parliament, is a cabinet formed in a parliamentary system when a political party or coalition of parties does not have a majority of overall seats in the parliament.

To deal with situations in parliamentary systems where no clear majority to support a government exists, two or more parties may establish a formal coalition government, commanding a clear majority of the parliamentary members, or a party might enter into less formal alliances or agreements with other parties, or individual members, to allow the minority government to stay in office.

For true political junkies, the Premier of Nova Scotia just called elections this week for June 13 (note how much more unpredictable and quick elections and campaigns are in parliamentary systems).

Anti-deficiency acts are rare in parliamentary systems precisely because the government (executive) are the same people as the majority of the legislative branch.

The Tories were hubristic and ambitious, like Hillary Clinton who chased a blow out win, which made even less sense in a presidential system than it did in a parliamentary system where governments are stronger with larger majorities.

In a parliamentary system like Canada's, if a government is in power long enough to pack the Senate and the Supreme Court and gets a majority government, it can pretty much do what it wants.

Not exact matches

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In the line graphs and in the nooks and crannies of our antiquated system of parliamentary accountability are the precise details of how much lesIn the line graphs and in the nooks and crannies of our antiquated system of parliamentary accountability are the precise details of how much lesin the nooks and crannies of our antiquated system of parliamentary accountability are the precise details of how much less.

Former Parliamentary Budget Officer Kevin Page called for this system because it puts spending decisions back in the hands of Parliament; and in fact, Minister Clement has already examined this proposal in response to a recommendation by the House of Commons Committee on Government Operations and Estimates.

India, for instance, has become the world's largest democracy by co-opting the parliamentary system of its former imperial overlord, and China is trying (though in service of a one - party state) to harness the free market.

«We have a parliamentary and not a presidential system in this country.

In the US the two major «parties» are more like coalitions than traditional parliamentary system parties, but the Democratic coalition tends to strongly support the mixed economy system, and parts of the Republican coalition do as well.

It is indeed true that when the Chamber is at its busiest, parliamentary prayers act as a bizarre and antiquated seat reservation system; on certain days MPs and peers have no option but to attend prayers in order to reserve a seat.

Parliamentary system in India.

If the Lords will cause a problem in the Commons, it's nothing compared the fierce passions dredged up by the parliamentary voting system and constituencies bill.

I am glad that someone is finally making the point that David Cameron is an unelected Prime Minister, not just because we have a parliamentary system but also because he did not gain a majority in the House of Commons.

A former Campaign co-ordinator of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Parliamentary Candidate for the Bole - Bamboi constituency claims his former party was like a tormenting disease in his system.

The European Parliamentary Elections Act 1999 moved european elections in Great Britain from first past the post to a closed list, non-preferential PR system.

The two factions compromised on a semi-presidential system with a weak president in an effort to reassure secularists concerned about being excluded from power by Ennahda - led parliamentary coalitions.

A system fairly similar to his does actually exist, it's called proportional representation and is used to varying degrees in many parliamentary systems like Ireland, Spain, and Germany.

In several of these cases (1951, 1966 and Oct 1974) the parliament was either hung, or the Prime minister had a majority of less than 10 (which is not considered to be a «working majority» in the UK's parliamentary system) and so you can say that they «jumped» to call an election before they were «pushed» by losing a vote of no - confidencIn several of these cases (1951, 1966 and Oct 1974) the parliament was either hung, or the Prime minister had a majority of less than 10 (which is not considered to be a «working majority» in the UK's parliamentary system) and so you can say that they «jumped» to call an election before they were «pushed» by losing a vote of no - confidencin the UK's parliamentary system) and so you can say that they «jumped» to call an election before they were «pushed» by losing a vote of no - confidence.

There's a reasonable case here, particularly in states like Britain or Australia where wage determination and conditions of labour were highly politicised for a long period of time, and the politicisation had deep system wide effects such as the general wage level, return to labour, and a proxy of power stronger than parliamentary votes.

The same sort of thing happens in Britain's parliamentary system.

The Chartists might have been surprised to find that it was a Conservative - dominated government which first tried to enact equal representation, in the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill 2010 (PVSCB in civil servantese).

The Fidesz parliamentary bloc, which enacted constitutional changes without including or consulting any opposition party, slashed the size of the parliament in half, redrew all of the individual constituencies unilaterally, changed the two - round system to a single first - past - the - post election for individual constituencies, and altered the way votes were aggregated.

What may indeed turn out to be most significant about these proposals, in constitutional terms, is that they may create the impetus for a broader reformist agenda around the question of a more clearly delineated «English» dimension within the UK's system of parliamentary government.

The British parliamentary system, inspired by John Locke, Edmund Burke, John Stuart Mill and many others who believed in a system of checks and balances to guarantee our liberties, has in the past been much admired as a model of liberal democracy, one that has enabled the peaceful evolution that has been an almost unique part of our history.

With the introduction of a parliamentary system, political parties started to form quickly and this led to a call for electoral reform that saw the introduction of a Party - list proportional representation in 1918.