The obverse is that MPs should be puppets and parliament a rubber stamp for the party with the majority of seats, doing what the executive commands – yet "stability" has not been a uniform feature of the long history of Westminster-style parliaments.
Kevin Bannon London Labelling anti-government demonstrators in Cuba as "pro-democracy protesters" implies that there is an absence of democracy on the island because the republic's constitutional arrangements do not conform to Westminster-style parliaments that have evolved to preserve the hegemony of capital.
The position of 'Marshal' was equivalent to the position of 'Speaker' in Westminster-style parliaments.
In a Westminster-style parliament, it would leave power dangerously concentrated in the prime minister.
This form of government survives only in Tonga, where a British-style parliament gives special status to traditional nobles.
"Today's Republicans in Congress behave like a parliamentary party in a British-style parliament, a winner-take-all system.
NOBODY can accuse Canadians of haste in reforming the Senate, the 105-seat upper chamber in their Westminster-style Parliament, modelled on Britain's House of Lords.
In the New Year the last old-style parliament will be disbanded and the first fully elected body sworn in to take its place.
On Monday, political life will revive in earnest with the resumption of the fractious provincial Assembly at Stormont, the imposing neo-Classical-style Parliament building that sits high on a hill overlooking Belfast.
In Belize, which went to the polls on March 7th, the fate of the prime minister depends on how many seats his party manages to win in the country's British-style parliament.
But Antigua and its tiny sister island, Barbuda, with their combined population of 65,000, about that of a medium-sized town in Europe, were allowed to go it alone, bequeathed with a British-style parliament and a decent cricket ground.
