Many parliamentary systems include a tradition that the Brits call the “Question Period” wherein the prime minister and his cabinet members face tough questions from members of the opposition party.

In a classic, let’s say British-styled system, you wouldn’t get a situation in which the leader of the executive branch is at loggerheads with the party that controlled the legislative branch.

I’ve written before that America is in danger of adopting de facto parliamentary rule, but within a presidential system that never developed the parliamentary norms to make this work. A regular reader ...

Under President Barack Obama, Americans saw how divided government leads to crisis-wracked governance, with the Republican Congress roadblocking presidential appointments (particularly in the courts) ...

"Next to European health care and European urban planning," writes Clay Risen in the liberal journal Democracy, "the aspect of European life for which liberal Americans pine most often is the ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on X (Opens in new window) There are, of course, advantages to the American system – the checks and balances have been very useful on ...

Osun State Governor Rauf Aregbesola has explained why his administration adopted the parliamentary system of government for local government administration. Speaking at the swearing-in ceremony for ...

For years, Hamid Karzai has wielded tremendous power as the president of Afghanistan -- all while heading off discontent by doling out government positions to prominent members of long-warring ethnic ...

A polarized, tribal America is coalescing into two factions. Americans, God bless ’em, revere the Constitution even if they disagree on what it says. Heck, they revere the Constitution even when they ...

I will come back to the matter in some detail shortly. But let me preface my comments by asserting that the subliminal issue behind this request is the ongoing conversation about restructuring Nigeria ...

Former Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, says when the parliamentary system of government was practiced in Nigeria, it led the country into disaster. Information Nigeria reports that ...