A parliamentary democracy includes an elected assembly or parliament whose members make decisions, pass laws, and supervise spending of public funds.
Parliaments also act as a sort of 'middleman' between ordinary citizens and the government.
The government is accountable to the parliament which, in turn, implicitly represents the views of the people who elected them. In a parliamentary democracy, the top officials are known as ministers. The ministers make up an executive body that is called the cabinet. Ministers can also be members of parliament, and so they carry out legislative or law- making functions as well. Both the government and the cabinet functions under the control of the parliament as a whole and remains in power only as long as it has the support of a majority of the members of parliament.