ˌparliamentariˈzation
[f. parliamentary a. + -ization.]
The act or process of becoming parliamentary in character or in means of government.
| 1924 Contemp. Rev. Aug. 256 The book deals..with the progress of the ideas of Parliamentarisation and racial self-determination under the stress of war. 1974 J. White tr. Poulantzas's Fascism & Dictatorship iii. iii. 132 The peace pact and the parliamentarization of the fascist movement were resented. 1975 Times Lit. Suppl. 12 Sept. 1028/2 Gesellschaft, Parlament und Regierung is concerned with the painful evolution of German parliamentarism and its weaknesses both before and after the First World War. More specifically, Dr Ritter's own introduction asks why those forces that might, on the strength of their economic resources, have pressed for parliamentarization..failed to mount an effective challenge to the traditional elites. |