Sentences with phrase «parliamentary government»

I am certain that other Parliamentary Governments will fall as the austerity budgets begin to take a toll on voters of many Western nations.

Whether such arguments will work for audiences unused to hearing the SNP defending the workings of parliamentary government at Westminster remains to be seen.

I've been speaking with Philip Cowley, professor of parliamentary government at the University of Nottingham, to get his take on the current situation.

Although most parliamentary governments go long periods of time without a no confidence vote, Italy, Israel, and the French Fourth Republic have all experienced difficulties maintaining stability.

This is pretty well defined in the U.S. but I understand that there's more overlap in parliamentary governments.

Government: Under 1991 constitution, constitutional monarchy with parliamentary government based on British model.

Only once it was clear that Brown could no longer command the confidence of the House of Commons (the key principle on which Westminster parliamentary government is based) and that Cameron would form a government in his place, did Brown meet with the Queen to offer his resignation.

From the vantage point of the Irish and Greek populations (perhaps soon to be joined by those of Portugal and Spain), national parliamentary governments are to be mobilized to impose the terms of national surrender to financial planners.

Dictators and Kaisers and Czars (Cesars) and finally European parliamentary governments.

It seems more likely that the Coalition of 2010, as organised by a very small clique of political elites (probable ministers and senior party figures), required the bypassing of Westminster and the Coalition agreements, precluding formal democratic procedure and parliamentary government founded on accountability to the electorate.

Belize has a democratically elected parliamentary government and is a member of the British Commonwealth.

Philip Cowley is Professor of Parliamentary Government at the University of Nottingham.

The financial achievement of parliamentary government was thus to establish debts that were not merely the personal obligations of princes, but were truly public and binding regardless of who occupied the throne.

Third, the commission reaffirmed the traditional model of parliamentary government, but recommended the adoption of an elected Senate to sensitize the federal government more fully to the aspirations of Canada's diverse regions.

This principle carried the seeds of Parliamentary government, which flourished briefly in 1265 under the leadership of Simon de Montfort, and grew throughout the following centuries into the defining principle of our political constitution.

Some years ago, I built a model that measured the chances of a parliamentary government going into a dictatorship.

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.

We have parliamentary government, not presidential.

Philip Cowley is professor of parliamentary government at the University of Nottingham's Faculty of Social Sciences

Political An independent member of the British Commonwealth since September 21, 1981, Belize has a stable, democratically elected (every five years) parliamentary government with two major parties.

Toronto, Ontario About Blog On procedure and politics focuses primarily on aspects of parliamentary procedure, parliamentary government in general and politics in a very general sense.

As an affirmation that authority should be subject to law arising from the community itself, Magna Carta is a foundation stone of constitutional and parliamentary government.