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Parliamentary democracy
Parliamentary democracy is government by ministers drawn from and answerable to an elected parliament, which can remove them by withdrawing its confidence. Growing out of 18th-century British cabinet government under Robert Walpole and spread through the British Empire and across Europe, it now prevails in most of Europe and the Commonwealth, praised for flexibility and accountability and criticised for unstable coalitions and weak checks.
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