The Westminster system has two serious problems. It offers a very limited choice of competent ministers and it fuses the government and the legislature. The Westminster system originated in the UK and ...

The Westminster system of government often comes in for its fair share of criticism in recent times — here and elsewhere. True, it is not perfect, and I have in my time been an advocate for reform and ...

Westminster parliamentary system is both a political heritage and a concept. Jurisdictions featuring the Westminster model around the world got it either as a matter of ‘implanted’ colonial legacy ...

Eminent law professor David Flint says in the Westminster system you have a "wonderful" system which offers proponents of it "leadership beyond politics" under the Crown - uniting the country. "The ...

The majority of the British public are in favour of urgent reform of Westminster with Labour voters and older people most likely to want change, poll results shared with HuffPost suggest. The research ...

Gabrielle Appleby receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Cheryl Saunders has received research grants from the Australian Research Council. TONY JONES: …let’s concentrate on the ...

‘Nowadays the members of Parliament, with the exception of the few cabinet members (and a few insurgents), are normally nothing better than well-disciplined “yes” men,’ lamented Max Weber in Politics ...

British politics feels like a pretty dark place at present. But a shaft of light might be about to break through. This Thursday, leaders from across the North of England will gather in Newcastle for ...

THE SNP is planning to embed itself deep in the Westminster system to confront David Cameron's austerity agenda and obtain more power for Holyrood. Party sources said Thursday's landslide win would ...

Majority Leader in Parliament, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, is proposing the adoption of the Westminster system of government for Ghana - where a Prime Minister leads government business. This, he believes ...