ABSTRACT
This chapter explores this explores the minimum conditions for democracy encapsulate what the solid majority of people in societies that aspire to democratic rule hope for. It explores international parliamentary organs, given their inclusion within intergovernmental systems and their continuous interaction with their governmental counterpart, will have more incentives and chances to acquire and expand a significant deal of legislative powers in addition to their declaratory role. The chapter presents regional parliaments in the current context of a strong global demand for people power marked of late by the occupying Wall Street Movement. It provides the current literature on the role of regional parliaments in enhancing elements of democracy. The growing theoretical interest towards international parliamentary institutions (IPIs) and their potential contribution to the promotion of democratic processes, both at the national and international level, is strictly interconnected to the field of studies on globalization, global governance and what has been termed international democracy deficit'.
