extraparliamentary
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- adjective
- /ˌɛkstrəˈpɑːrlɪˌmɛntəri/
- Specialized
- Extraparliamentary groups often seek to influence policy outside the traditional political process.
Examples
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We witnessed only the final stages of the successes and hopes of extraparliamentary politics.
Academic text (1995) -
Through parliamentary and extraparliamentary engagement, both sides strive to preserve the cultural patterns that distinguish them.
Academic text (2000) -
Increasingly, civil society groups adopted more confrontational and extraparliamentary collective action styles, developing a strategic orientation that sought transnational solidarity and international collaboration.
Academic text (2004) -
In his essay on the rise of radical extraparliamentary factions in the wake of the Six Day War, Sprinzak elucidates the concept of delegitimation.
Academic text (2000) -
The profound controversy regarding the future of the territories has fashioned political debate in Israel for two decades, and toward the end of the 1970s, it was the incentive for the majority of the extraparliamentary political activity of Israeli citizens (Lehman-Wilzig 1990).
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The protesters organized an extraparliamentary movement to demand more rights from the government.
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Many activists believe that extraparliamentary actions can lead to significant social change.
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
extraparliamentary = parliamentary (transparent) = extra + parliament
The productive prefix 'extra-' meaning 'outside/beyond' combines directly with 'parliamentary' to yield 'outside the parliament', a meaning readily inferable by learners.
Etymology
Extraparliamentary breaks into extra- meaning 'outside' and parliament meaning a meeting of lawmakers, and the extra- is the same 'outside' you see in 'extracurricular'. So, extraparliamentary describes actions or groups that act or exist 'outside' the official parliament.