Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Parliamentary or representative government.
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Examples
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Syndicalism may, perhaps, be most usefully viewed as a reaction against the tendency towards "parliamentarism" or undue emphasis on political action, which has existed even among revolutionary Socialists in Germany and elsewhere (see Part II, Chapter V).
Socialism As It Is A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement William English Walling
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How about you pick some specific examples (Britain, Germany, Israel, Spain, India …?) that you think define the superiority of “parliamentarism” and we can argue the merits of that instead.
Matthew Yglesias » By Request: The Case for Parliamentarism 2009
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Since this resembles the way most states (and, indeed, many counties) work it might go down smoother as a proposal than would a shift to a Euro-style parliamentarism.
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But like Mussolini and Hitler, Metaxas rose to power on the wave of political and social instability of the 1920s and early 1930s, and his regime was characterised by two negative attributes: anti-communism and anti-parliamentarism, 'evils' which he regarded as being perilous to the integrity of the Greek nation.
Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity 2008
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Our antique "first past the post" electoral system doesn't lend itself, for many reasons, to collegial parliamentarism.
Archive 2008-12-01 2008
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Starting from an initial rejection of political institutions and parliamentarism, we understood only later that the democratic challenge lies in occupying a politically "normalised" space.
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The writer insists that the Venezuelan revolutionary leader and his clique are foolishly sticking to bourgeois parliamentarism and bourgeois legality in their "peaceful [christian] revolution."
Chavez' government mismanaged? Well, yes, it is but what about the mite in USA's own eye? 2008
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Our antique "first past the post" electoral system doesn't lend itself, for many reasons, to collegial parliamentarism.
A week in politics 2008
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Besides being good on its own merits, the quotation is also a natural complement to one of my other epigraphs, a quotation from Proudhon on parliamentarism and social economy.
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And the “step up” to republicanism, and the previous step up to parliamentarism, helped us break out of the monarchical system in the West.
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