Al-Zuhairi A. Modern Parliamentarism as a Factor of Democratic Political System Development.

Modern parliamentarism as a factor of the formation of a democratic political system was explored. The process of formation of theoretical and methodological foundations of the research of parliamentarism is characterized and its essence is determined; principles of actualization and features of the reflection of the relationship between democracy and parliamentarism in the political process; the ideas of parliamentarism and democracy in the system of dominant social life of Islam. The influence of the parliamentary type of government on the process of democratic consolidation is analyzed; process and peculiarities of the establishment of institutes of democracy and parliamentary control in the Republic of Iraq. The internal political factors of the functioning of the parliamentary system in the Republic of Iraq are determined. It is proved that the reform of the Middle Eastern societies in accordance with the modern requirements for representative power.